LAKE CHAUTAUQUA LUTHERAN CENTER INC

EIN 16-0866999 BEMUS POINT, NY

Revenue 2024: $409,335
Expenses 2024: $599,695

Program services were 74.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 7000
Street: 5013 ROUTE 430

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (EIN 41-1568278). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LCLC PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH, RENEWAL AND CHRIST-CENTERED COMMUNITY IN THE WONDER OF GOD'S CREATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SHARING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS IN WAYS THAT GIVE LIFE: THROUGH CULTIVATING CHRIST-CENTERED COMMUNITY FOR THE GROWTH AND RENEWAL OF ALL GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE WONDER OF CREATION.

SUMMER CAMP - LCLC HOLDS VARIOUS SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS FOR YOUTHS AND YOUNG ADULTS INCLUDING YOUTH CAMP, SAILING CAMP, SENIOR HIGH WEEK, LEADERS-IN-TRAINING AND DISCIPLES OF GOD.

Expenses $193,453 · Revenue $102,434
RETREAT CENTER - LCLC OFFERS YEAR-ROUND FACILITIES INCLUDING ITS RETREAT CENTER AND REDEEMER LODGE WHICH CONGREGATIONS AND GROUPS CAN ENJOY DAY OR OVERNIGHT RETREATS.

Expenses $174,342 · Revenue $92,315
ALL OTHER EVENTS - LCLC HOLDS VARIOUS DIFFERENT EVENTS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES INCLUDING AN UNFINISHED OBJECTS RETREAT, SENIOR HIGH WINTER RETREAT, 4TH-8TH GRADE WINTER RETREAT, ADULT FALL RETREAT, AUTUMNFEST, MEN'S RETREAT AND YOUTH LEADER'S TRAINING EVENT.

Expenses $79,319 · Revenue $42,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Paul MerztlufftPAUL MERZTLUFFT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Patricia ChaffeePATRICIA CHAFFEE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Deborah JohnsonDEBORAH JOHNSON

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Chris GeorgeCHRIS GEORGE

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Holly FreedHOLLY FREED

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Kaitlyn BlendKAITLYN BLEND

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$37,815

From this org

$37,815

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Steve DiverSTEVE DIVER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Richard HamiltonRICHARD HAMILTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Bishop Lee Miller IIIBISHOP LEE MILLER III

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Kelly SierackeKELLY SIERACKE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Mark HannonMARK HANNON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Emma DieblerEMMA DIEBLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$409,335

Expenses

$599,695

Contributions

$155,016

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$658,482

Expenses

$541,992

Contributions

$401,787

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$362,812

Expenses

$505,201

Contributions

$159,907

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$409,335	$599,695	$155,016	$0
2023	$658,482	$541,992	$401,787	$0
2022	$362,812	$505,201	$159,907	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$659,311

Expenses

$459,174

Assets (EOY)

$2,547,313
2020 · 990

Revenue

$373,287

Expenses

$395,462

Assets (EOY)

$2,368,718
2019 · 990

Revenue

$781,012

Expenses

$595,575

Assets (EOY)

$2,389,407
2018 · 990

Revenue

$733,188

Expenses

$580,596

Assets (EOY)

$2,129,706
2017 · 990

Revenue

$575,722

Expenses

$559,940

Assets (EOY)

$2,021,969
2016 · 990

Revenue

$422,986

Expenses

$499,720

Assets (EOY)

$1,956,896
2015 · 990

Revenue

$455,864

Expenses

$489,908

Assets (EOY)

$2,038,730
2014 · 990

Revenue

$554,711

Expenses

$494,279

Assets (EOY)

$2,062,065
2013 · 990

Revenue

$574,946

Expenses

$527,938

Assets (EOY)

$1,998,230
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$492,487

Assets (EOY)

$1,973,762

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$659,311	$459,174	$2,547,313
2020	990	$373,287	$395,462	$2,368,718
2019	990	$781,012	$595,575	$2,389,407
2018	990	$733,188	$580,596	$2,129,706
2017	990	$575,722	$559,940	$2,021,969
2016	990	$422,986	$499,720	$1,956,896
2015	990	$455,864	$489,908	$2,038,730
2014	990	$554,711	$494,279	$2,062,065
2013	990	$574,946	$527,938	$1,998,230
2012	990	not reported	$492,487	$1,973,762

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

ST JOHNS LUTHERAN HOME FOR CHILDREN

$40,500

2023
ST JOHNS LUTHERAN HOME FOR CHILDREN

$39,145

2022
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$30,000

2022 RELIGION
ST JOHNS LUTHERAN HOME FOR CHILDREN

$20,000

2024
LUTHERAN CHARITIES

$10,000

2023 LAKE CHAUTAUQUA LUTHERAN CENTER IS A CAMPING CENTER FOR YOUTH IN SUMMER AND OTHER YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING. GRANT FUNDS AID WITH PROGRAM COSTS AND STRUCTURAL UPKEEP.
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$8,750

2024 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
ST JOHNS LUTHERAN HOME FOR CHILDREN

$6,000

2025

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.