St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment
Lime Springs, IA · EIN 85-1350431. Reported 44 grants totalling $117,500 to 43 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Paul Lutheran Church | Lime Springs, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pleasant Hill Cemetery Assoc | Lime Springs, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Saetersdal Lutheran Church | Granger, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Howard County Hospice | Cresco, IA | $4,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| City of Chester | Chester, IA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springschester Fish & Game Club | Lime Springs, IA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spring Ahead Learning Center | Lime Springs, IA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Howard County Sheriff Dept | Cresco, IA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dollars for Scholars | Cresco, IA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Evans Memorial Home | Cresco, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| George Anderson Scholarship | Bremer, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Good Earth Village | Spring Valley, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Guardians of Northeast Iowa | Decorah, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Helping Services Ne Iowa | Decorah, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Medical Clinic | Lime Springs, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Riceville Family Care and Therapy | Riceville, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lutheran World Relief | Baltimore, MD | $2,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bremwood | Bremer, IA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Parks & Pool | Lime Springs, IA | $2,400 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Community Club | Lime Springs, IA | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lutheran Disaster Response | Chicago, IL | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| City of Elma | Elma, IA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cresco Public Library | Cresco, IA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lidtke Mill Historical Society | Lime Springs, IA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Public Library | Lime Springs, IA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Matthew Lutheran Church | Granger, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lidtke Mill Bingo | Lime Springs, IA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Neia Rsvp Program | Decorah, IA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Howard Winn Csd | Cresco, IA | $1,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Senior Citizens Club | Lime Springs, IA | $1,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Accura Healthcare | Cresco, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chester Fire & Rescue | Chester, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| City of Lime Springs | Lime Springs, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Education for a Brighter Future | Spicer, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ewalu | Strawberry Point, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Upper Iowa River Conference | Waverly, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Legion Post #135 | Cresco, IA | $900 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Howard County Community Action | Cresco, IA | $800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Special Needs Assn of Howard Cty | Cresco, IA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lime Springs Fire Department | Lime Springs, IA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Honor Flight Dfw | Flower Mound, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Methodist Church | Lime Springs, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Methodist Church Bible School | Lime Springs, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
1 of 43 (2%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- St Paul Lutheran Church
DONATION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS & OUTREACH - Howard Winn Csd
DONATION FOR BACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING GIVEAWAY AND BACKPACK/PEANUT BUTTER PROGRAM - City of Lime Springs
DONATION FOR TREE REMOVAL - Howard County Community Action
DONATION FOR MOBILE FOOD & PANTRY AND TOYS FOR ALL - Honor Flight Dfw
DONATION FOR VETERANS HONOR BUS TRIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 5 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $500 | $500 |
| 2022 | 1 | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| 2025 | 42 | $116,000 | $2,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
86% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 213 N Miller St, Lime Springs, IA, 52155. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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