Columbia Lutheran Ministries

Analysis

Columbia Lutheran Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbia Lutheran Ministries reported income of $13.5m and spending of $13.1m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $15.0m to $13.5m (-10%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Columbia Lutheran Ministries sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Acclivus Inc ($13.5m), Simpson House Inc ($13.5m) and Dayton Childrens Hospital Foundation ($13.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $509k (3.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $6.3m. At year end it held assets of $21.4m against liabilities of $870k, net assets of $20.6m. It reported 186 employees.