LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF THE SOUTH INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P200

Classification

7000

Street

8305 CROSS PARK DR

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

• OUR CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCLUDED OUR FOSTER IN TEXAS PROGRAM WHERE A FAMILY PARTNERS WITH UPBRING TO OPEN THEIR HOME AND THEIR HEARTS TO A CHILD IN NEED, PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR IMMEDIATE NEEDS SUCH AS FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER. UPBRING ALSO PROVIDES LONG-TERM SUPPORT TO HELP CHILDREN BUILD STRONG BONDS WITH THEIR NEW FAMILY MEMBERS. FOSTER PARENTS ARE TRAINED IN TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE, SO THEY CAN HELP THEIR CHILDREN HEAL FROM THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT BROUGHT THEM INTO FOSTER CARE. ADOPTIONS OCCUR NATURALLY THROUGH THE FOSTER IN TEXAS PROGRAM, AND ARE COMPLEMENTED BY DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION SERVICES TO HELP CHILDREN FIND THEIR FOREVER FAMILIES. BEREAL SUPPORTS YOUNG ADULTS AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE WITH HOUSING, ASSISTANCE FOR BASIC NEEDS, AND A STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING THEIR LIFE GOALS.

  Expenses $9,471,691 · Grants $4,215,668 · Revenue $8,460,098

• RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS INCLUDE LIFE-CHANGING WORK BEING DONE AT OUR NEW LIFE AND KRAUSE CHILDREN'S CENTERS THAT PROVIDE A SAFE PLACE FOR GIRLS FROM ACROSS TEXAS TO HEAL FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS. UPBRING'S CHILDREN'S SHELTERS AND TRANSITIONAL FOSTER CARE PROGRAMS PROVIDE CARE AND SUPPORT FROM OUR COMPASSIONATE STAFF AND NURTURING FOSTER PARENTS UNTIL THEIR FAMILIES CAN BE LOCATED.

  Expenses $3,949,681 · Grants $396,112 · Revenue $1,730,411

• EDUCATION SERVICES INCLUDE HEADSTART AND EARLY HEADSTART PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT HELP CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PREPARE TO START KINDERGARTEN READY TO LEARN. EDUCATION SERVICES ALSO INCLUDE PROGRAMS AT UPBRING SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN AUSTIN. THE SCHOOL PROVIDES EDUCATION SERVICES TO CHILDREN AGES SIX-WEEKS TO ELEMENTARY AGE, RESERVING SPACES FOR CHILDREN IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.

  Expenses $23,518,011 · Grants $216,791 · Revenue $1,915,766

• THE OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT (ORR) IN TEXAS AND THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES HELPS NEW POPULATIONS INTEGRATE INTO AMERICAN LIFE BY CONNECTING THEM TO CRITICAL RESOURCES. UPBRING OPERATES FOUR ORR PROGRAMS IN TEXAS FOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE MIGRATED TO THE U.S. ALONE OR WITH OTHER MINORS. RATHER THAN BEING DEPORTED, CHILDREN WHO CROSS THE BORDER ALONE FROM CENTRAL AMERICA ARE TURNED OVER TO ORR, HELD IN DESIGNATED FACILITIES AND PROVIDED WITH SERVICES UNTIL THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS CAN BE LOCATED. THIS EXPERIENCE ALONE CAN BE SCARY, BUT THE STAFF AT UPBRING SHELTERS PROVIDE THE CHILDREN WITH AROUND-THE-CLOCK ATTENTION, CARING FOR THEIR PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING.

  Expenses $77,422,438 · Grants $7,083,044

• COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE PROVIDED PRIMARILY IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS AND HELP THOSE IN NEED WITH EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD, UTILITIES, PRESCRIPTIONS, FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS AND CONSULTATIONS.

  Expenses $371,532 · Grants $41,480

• COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AND INNOVATION INITIATIVES: AS FAMILIES CONTINUE TO FACE THE STRESSORS OF POVERTY, DRUG ADDICTION, ISOLATION AND OTHER RISK FACTORS THAT CAN LEAD TO THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN, OUR ATTENTION AND RESOURCES WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK DESIGNED TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN BREAKING THE CYCLE OF CHILD ABUSE THROUGH: INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS, NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND AN EXPANDING NETWORK OF COMMUNITY SERVICES.

  Expenses $1,441,723 · Grants $1,754

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $125,518,410

  Expenses

  $128,036,220

  Contributions

  $111,847,502

  Grants paid

  $11,954,849

• 2023

  Revenue

  $117,827,841

  Expenses

  $119,110,981

  Contributions

  $102,375,369

  Grants paid

  $12,821,263

• 2022

  Revenue

  $105,628,164

  Expenses

  $108,365,125

  Contributions

  $88,082,187

  Grants paid

  $15,103,951

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

  $96,832,412

  Expenses

  $95,836,024

  Assets (EOY)

  $61,046,286

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $88,560,129

  Expenses

  $93,144,478

  Assets (EOY)

  $60,174,032

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $78,976,011

  Expenses

  $80,316,514

  Assets (EOY)

  $52,782,376

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $68,192,366

  Expenses

  $60,879,527

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,483,735

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $56,885,138

  Expenses

  $56,471,876

  Assets (EOY)

  $52,768,206

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $74,958,555

  Expenses

  $63,212,843

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,485,463

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $63,978,540

  Expenses

  $65,432,301

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,500,514

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $67,179,627

  Expenses

  $60,401,178

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,155,727

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $54,111,663

  Expenses

  $55,466,137

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,872,363

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $48,746,159

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,194,673

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

• LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES DISASTER RESPONSE INC

  $1,136,783

  2022 · OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO RELATED ENTITY

• LUTHERAN PROPERTIES INC

  $200,387

  2022 · OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO RELATED ENTITY

• LUTHERAN PROPERTIES INC

  $171,118

  2023 · OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO RELATED ENTITY

• LUTHERAN PROPERTIES INC

  $94,463

  2024 · OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO RELATED ENTITY

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE

  $516,591

  2025 · CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES; RESETTLEMENT AND INTEGRATION SERVICES

• LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE

  $365,963

  2024 · CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES; RESETTLEMENT AND INTEGRATION SERVICES

• DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION

  $225,000

  2023 · WENDY'S WONDERFUL KIDS GRANTS

• DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION

  $225,000

  2024 · WENDY'S WONDERFUL KIDS GRANTS

• DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION

  $225,000

  2022 · WENDY'S WONDERFUL KIDS GRANTS

• ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

  $130,255

  2024 · T3C READINESS ACTIVITIES - OPERATIONS

• MARY MILLER GOERTZ MEMORIAL TR

  $127,196

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• BEAUMONT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

  $120,000

  2022

• BEAUMONT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

  $120,000

  2023

• MARY MILLER GOERTZ MEMORIAL TR

  $112,254

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Other IRS files