Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc
Paris, IL · EIN 20-3142622. Reported 120 grants totalling $4,408,860 to 53 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,800. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $45,000; the smallest was $5,019 and the largest $281,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For the Love of Africa Ministries Inc | Evansville, IN | $1,013,400 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Grace Lutheran Church | Paris, IL | $731,152 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Siberian Lutheran Mission Society Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $530,734 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Resurrection Lutheran Church | Cary, NC | $221,334 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bethlehem Lutheran Church | Saint Louis, MO | $216,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Elementary School Association | Saint Louis, MO | $194,145 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| International Lutheran Council Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Northeast Wisconsin Lutheran School Assoc of the Greater Bay Area Inc | Green Bay, WI | $132,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peace Lutheran School Association Inc | Antigo, WI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Evergreen Lutheran High School | Tacoma, WA | $79,282 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Paul Lutheran Church | Stevens Point, WI | $67,268 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | Milwaukee, WI | $59,790 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Lutheran University Association Inc | Valparaiso, IN | $59,766 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central Illinois Luteran Camping Association | Cantrall, IL | $59,390 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lutheran High South - Orange County Crean Lutheran South High School | Irvine, CA | $55,817 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc | Paris, IL | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Word Lutheran High School Incorporated | Jackson, WI | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint James Lutheran Church | Shawano, WI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lutheran High School Association of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mount Olive Lutheran Church | Rockford, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pilgrim Lutheran Church | Wauwatosa, WI | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chatham Fields Lutheran Church | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camp Luther Inc | Three Lakes, WI | $24,620 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Faith Lutheran Church | Green Bay, WI | $22,998 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicagoland Lutheran Educational Foundation | Bensenville, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Saint James Lutheran Church | Quincy, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Concordia Educational Association Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Family Association Inc | Tupelo, MS | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lutheran High School Association of Nassau and Suffolk Counties | Brookville, NY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Martin Luther High School Foundation Inc | Maspeth, NY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School | New Ulm, MN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nebraska Lutheran High School | Waco, NE | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jordan Lutheran Church | Apex, NC | $12,785 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Illinois District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | Springfield, IL | $12,737 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manitowoc Lutheran High School | Manitowoc, WI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Hope Lutheran Church | Neenah, WI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thrive St Louis Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Johns Lutheran Church Treasurer | Columbia City, IN | $10,391 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | Danville, IL | $10,131 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Illinois District Endowment Fund Inc | Springfield, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ Lutheran Church of Peoria Il | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| King of Kings Lutheran Church | Omaha, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Peters Lutheran Church | Richmond, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Lutheran High School | Wildomar, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lutheran Camp Association | Arcadia, MI | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saint Pauls Lutheran Church | Fall Creek, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lord of Life Lutheran Church | Elburn, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salem Lutheran Church | Black Jack, MO | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peace Lutheran of Pigeon Falls Inc | Pigeon Falls, WI | $6,338 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bethany Lutheran Church | Kohler, WI | $6,162 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Saint Johns Lutheran Church | Mattoon, IL | $5,120 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
23 of 53 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18 | $739,988 | $17,300 |
| 2021 | 27 | $1,003,926 | $16,825 |
| 2022 | 23 | $894,840 | $16,796 |
| 2023 | 24 | $838,603 | $16,723 |
| 2024 | 28 | $931,503 | $15,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
40% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,800 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 31, Paris, IL, 61944.
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