Form 990 for tax year 2022
Filed by LUTHERAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,843,324
- Total expenses
- $1,267,269
- Contributions and grants received
- $794,008
- Grants paid
- $622,654
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $274,428
- Other revenue
- $774,888
- Total assets, end of year
- $10,166,884
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $7,911
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $10,158,973
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,081,975
- Management and general expenses
- $94,563
- Fundraising expenses
- $90,731
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,081,975
Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1b · Membership dues
$34,704
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1c · Fundraising events
$390,033
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$369,271
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3 · Investment income
total $274,428 · related or exempt $274,428
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$390,033
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$80,051
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$80,051 · excluded -$80,051
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11a · Other revenue: REALIZED GAIN (LOSS) O
total $854,939 · related or exempt $854,939
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11e · Other revenue, total
$854,939
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $622,654 · program services $622,654
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $298,864 · program services $242,080 · management and general $8,966 · fundraising $47,818
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $72,766 · program services $58,940 · management and general $2,183 · fundraising $11,643
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $16,918 · program services $13,703 · management and general $508 · fundraising $2,707
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13 · Office expenses
total $1,029 · program services $833 · management and general $31 · fundraising $165
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16 · Occupancy
total $28,388 · program services $22,994 · management and general $852 · fundraising $4,542
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17 · Travel
total $3,084 · program services $2,498 · management and general $93 · fundraising $493
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $5,780 · program services $4,682 · management and general $173 · fundraising $925
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23 · Insurance
total $6,039 · program services $4,892 · management and general $181 · fundraising $966
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24a · Other expenses: INVESTMENT FEES
total $77,550 · management and general $77,550
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24b · Other expenses: JOINT MARKETING EXPENSE
total $27,712 · program services $22,447 · management and general $831 · fundraising $4,434
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24c · Other expenses: STAFF DEVELOPMENT
total $24,457 · program services $19,810 · management and general $734 · fundraising $3,913
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24d · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL FEES - OTH
total $21,898 · program services $17,737 · management and general $657 · fundraising $3,504
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24e · All other expenses
total $60,130 · program services $48,705 · management and general $1,804 · fundraising $9,621
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,052,073 · end of year $1,021,663
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $23,000 · end of year $55,000
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $6,029
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$32,131
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$18,143
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $10,375 · end of year $13,988
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $8,597,502 · end of year $8,993,469
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $73,132 · end of year $76,735
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
end of year $869
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $8,773 · end of year $7,042
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,026,717 · end of year $1,175,862
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $8,720,592 · end of year $8,983,111
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
LESA provides financial resources for children in need to obtain Lutheran Christian education in the metropolitan St. Louis area. We promote and advocate for efforts to improve the sustainability and quality of Lutheran Christian schools.
Activities or mission (Part I)
A Christ-centered resource for those who learn and teach in Lutheran schools in the St. Louis area.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $622,654 · Grants $622,654
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Produced and provided professional development programs for educators in member schools, delivering roughly 3,500 hours of professional development programing to over 500 educators;expanded the STEM program to serve students in early childhood through eighth grade by providing hands-on instructional materials from the LEGO Education suite, including STEAM Park, Coding Express, WeDo, EV3 MindStorms, and SPIKE Prime, and teacher training needed to maximize student learning and outcomes from LESA's STEM program; provided financial support to maintain student counseling programs in member schools.
Expenses $18,635
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Provided STEM instructional materials to schools to introduce students at every grade level to robotics, coding, and other STEM skills. LESA's LEGO Lending Library includes roughly 100 kits, including Coding Express and STEAM Park, WeDo, SPIKE Prime, and MINDSTORMS/EV3, appropriate for students from Early Childhood through grade eight. LESA's program allows member schools' teachers to access kits on a rotating basis, helping them to provide hands-on, high quality coding, engineering, and robotics instruction to students aged 2-14 years.
Expenses $5,508
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Provided services to schools to assist in providing sustainable and high-quality instruction for the children we serve. Services provided included joint marketing of member schools through various media platforms, professional development to staff in the areas of marketing and student recruitment and retention, educator access to Colonial Williamsburg Summer Teacher Institute, support to maintain National Lutheran School Accreditation, establishing a new teacher mentor program, providing development grants to schools to address specific educator needs, and establishing a natural gas aggregation program to provide fuel savings for member schools.
Expenses $435,178
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Listed in Part VII
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DENNIS KEMPER
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ALAN ERDMAN
VICE-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JACQUELYN BRANNEKY
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARILYN BRICKLER
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DAVID GRUENWALD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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PAUL NIEWALD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JEFF SCHMITT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KIP STARNES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ALAN VOGT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MICHAEL BECKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JOHN CRUMRINE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JIM ECKRICH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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LEAH HARRIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ANANDA BARON
ADVISORY DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DR MEL SANDFORT
ADVISORY DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 8 December 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202303429349301300
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