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LUTHERAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

EIN 43-1853158 SAINT LOUIS, MO

Revenue 2024
$1,435,231
Expenses 2024
$1,392,736

Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1000
Street
11123 S TOWNE SQ STE F

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LESA equips Lutheran schools families and communities with resources to expand Gods Kingdom.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LESA equips families Lutheran schools and communities for dynamic Christ-centered education. LESA provides professional development and educational resources for educators tuition assistance for families and marketing resources for schools.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $641,838

  • Produced and provided professional development programs for educators in member schools delivering roughly 1,900 hours of professional development programming to over 500 educators.

    Expenses $16,382

  • Provided STEM instructional materials to schools to introduce students at every grade level to robotics coding and other STEM skills. LESAs LEGO Lending Library includes roughly 100 kits including Coding Express and STEAM Park Spike Essentials and Spike Prime appropriate for students from Early Childhood through grade eight. LESAs 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 $7,665

  • Provided services to schools to equip administrators educators and school staff with high quality resources to educate children. Services include joint marketing of member schools through various media platforms professional development to staff in areas of marketing and student retention and recruitment educator access to Colonial Williamsburg Summer Teacher Institute support to maintain National Lutheran School Accreditation providing development grants to schools for specific educator needs maintaining access of a natural gas aggregation program to provide fuel savings for member schools.

    Expenses $434,377

As filed on the 2024 return. 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.

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.

  • Alan Erdman

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Vogt

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jackie Branneky

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Schmitt

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Crumrine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Eckrich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Gruenwald

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cathy Hohl

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dennis Kemper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joanne Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kip Starnes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marilyn Brickler

    Board Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ananda Baron

    Advisory Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Gutberlet

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $118,500
    From this org
    $118,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $118,500

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,435,231
    Expenses
    $1,392,736
    Contributions
    $872,671
    Grants paid
    $641,838
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,924,171
    Expenses
    $1,377,504
    Contributions
    $855,356
    Grants paid
    $629,698
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,843,324
    Expenses
    $1,267,269
    Contributions
    $794,008
    Grants paid
    $622,654

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
    $1,463,339
    Expenses
    $1,222,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,756,082

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,455,826
    Expenses
    $1,099,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,417,230

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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.