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ON A CAMPUS OF MORE THAN 800 ACRES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE UPPER IOWA RIVER IN DECORAH, IOWA, LUTHER IS A TRUE RESIDENTIAL CAMPUS, WITH 97 PERCENT OF STUDENTS LIVING ON CAMPUS AND NEARLY 95 PERCENT OF FACULTY CHOOSING TO LIVE WITHIN FIVE MILES OF IT. LUTHER'S STUDENT BODY INCLUDES 1,442 MEN AND WOMEN (46 PERCENT AND 54 PERCENT, RESPECTIVELY) FROM 40 STATES AND 61 FOREIGN COUNTRIES. U.S. STUDENTS OF COLOR CONSTITUTE 13.0 PERCENT OF THE STUDENT BODY. APPROXIMATELY 70 PERCENT OF LUTHER STUDENTS VOLUNTEER DURING THEIR TIME HERE, EXHIBITING THE HIGH SERVICE ETHIC INTRINSIC TO LUTHER CULTURE. THE COLLEGE STRIVES TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL CONVICTIONS CAN REALIZE PERSONAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
Source: IRS Form 990 (Tax Year 2024)
Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Total Revenue
▼$113.2M
Total Contributions
$10.7M
Total Expenses
▼$120.4M
Total Assets
$305.9M
Total Liabilities
▼$39.1M
Net Assets
$266.8M
Officer Compensation
→$1.3M
Other Salaries
$26.7M
Investment Income
▼$4.6M
Fundraising
▼$7,616
Source: USAspending.gov · Searched by organization name
Total Federal Funding
$25.1M
Awards Found
36
Department of Education
$3.9M
LUTHER COLLEGE CARES ACT HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND APPLICATION PART II-INSTITUTION
Department of Education
$3.2M
LUTHER COLLEGE CARES ACT HIGHER EDUCATION EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND APPLICATION
Department of Energy
$1.5M
TAS::89 0321::TAS INTEGRATED RENEWABLE ENERGY & CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE
Department of Education
$1.1M
TRIO - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM
Department of Agriculture
$500K
SEC. 9007 REAP-RENEW ENERGY SYS GUAR. LOAN & GRANT COMBO (MAN)
Department of Education
$352.5K
LUTHER COLLEGE TRIO STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM
National Science Foundation
$233.7K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY WITH BELLE AND BELLE II
National Science Foundation
$185.5K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY WITH BELLE AND BELLE II -THE SPECTROSCOPY OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM IS GENERALLY REGARDED AS AN EXCELLENT LABORATORY FOR UNDERSTANDING QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), THE QUANTUM THEORY OF STRONG INTERACTIONS. A RENAISSANCE OF QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY CAME WITH EXPERIMENTS INCLUDING CLEO, CLEO-C, BELLE AND BELLE II, WITH WHICH THE PI OF THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN ENGAGED FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. THE BELLE AND BELLE II EXPERIMENTS AT KEK IN JAPAN HAVE COLLECTED THE WORLD'S LARGEST DATA SAMPLES AT THE BOTTOMONIUM RESONANCES, THE SO-CALLED UPSILON RESONANCES. THESE SAMPLES HAVE ALLOWED EXPERIMENTERS TO ACQUIRE LARGE STATISTICS FOR OBSERVING THE DECAYS OF BOTTOMONIUM, OPEN BOTTOM, AND OPEN CHARM MESONS, AND THEREBY STUDY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS OF HEAVY FLAVOR PHYSICS AND OF RARE PHENOMENA IN THESE DECAYS, INCLUDING POTENTIALLY NEW PHYSICS. THE CENTRAL AIM OF THIS RUI PROGRAM OF RESEARCH BY THE LUTHER COLLEGE GROUP IS TO STUDY THE SPECTROSCOPY OF BOTTOMONIUM AND BOTTOMONIUM-LIKE MESONS LIKE THE EXOTIC FOUR-QUARK ZB STATES, WITH A FOCUS ON RESONANT STATES THAT PROBE THE LIMITS OF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), AND OF STATES WHOSE QUARK CONTENT CANNOT BE EITHER THREE QUARKS OR A QUARK AND ANTIQUARK. THE LUTHER COLLEGE PROGRAM PROVIDES AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO BECOME MEANINGFULLY INVOLVED IN A WORLD-LEADING EXPERIMENT, TAKING PART IN EVERY ASPECT OF BELLE AND BELLE II DATA ANALYSIS, AND TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION OF THE UPGRADED EXPERIMENT, BELLE II. THE BROADER IMPACTS OF THE PROGRAM FOCUS ON BRINGING THE EXCITING WORLD OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO AUDIENCES INCLUDING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS BOTH IN THE RURAL NORTHEAST QUARTER OF IOWA, BUT ALSO SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE REGION INCLUDING WESTERN WISCONSIN AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THROUGH CLASSROOM VISITS, STUDENT STEM FAIR PROGRAMS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. OUTREACH EFFORTS INCLUDE BRINGING INTERNATIONAL MASTER CLASSES FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE REGION, THROUGH STEM-RELATED CLASSES IN THE DORIAN MUSIC CAMPS WHICH REACH OVER 600 STUDENTS EACH SUMMER AT LUTHER COLLEGE, AND GO CONSIDERABLY BEYOND, AS THE PI IS CO-CHAIR OF THE BELLE II OUTREACH GROUP WHICH OVERSEES SOCIAL MEDIA AND OUTREACH TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ON BEHALF OF THE COLLABORATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
National Science Foundation
$150.6K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY WITH BELLE AND BELLE II
National Science Foundation
$150K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY WITH BELLE AND BELLE II
National Science Foundation
$135.2K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE PROCESSES AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: THE EVOLUTION OF LATE MIOCENE TO PRESENT SURFACE OCEAN CONDITIONS
National Science Foundation
$135K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY
National Science Foundation
$134.6K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY
National Science Foundation
$120.2K
MRI: ACQUISITION OF ACCELERATED SOLVENT EXTRACTOR AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPH FOR UNDERGRADUATE PALEOCLIMATOLOGICAL RESEARCH
National Archives and Records Administration
$119.9K
JOURNEYS TO AMERICA: ILLUMINATING HIDDEN COLLECTIONS
National Science Foundation
$102.1K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE EFFECT OF LANDSCAPE CONTEXT ON THE SENSITIVITY OF VEGETATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
National Science Foundation
$95.1K
RUI: STUDIES OF HEAVY QUARKONIUM SPECTROSCOPY WITH THE CLEO AND CLEO-C EXPERIMENTS
National Science Foundation
$89.5K
RUI/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE MOLECULAR ORIGINS OF FRICTION - A STUDY ACROSS VELOCITY REGIMES OF PHOSPHONATE MONOLAYERS ON ALTERNATIVE MEMS-TYPE SU
National Science Foundation
$85.9K
MRI: ACQUISITION OF ICP-OES SPECTROMETER
Department of Education
$63.2K
HIGHER EDUCATION DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM
National Science Foundation
$36.7K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CREATING HIGH-COMPLETION CS ONLINE LEARNING USING EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY PRINCIPLES
Department of Agriculture
$34.7K
PD - MANDATORY RENEWABLE ENERGY AUDIT GRANTS
National Endowment for the Humanities
$8,265
LUTHER COLLEGE COLLECTIONS CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
Department of the Interior
$7,500
OAK WOODLAND AND PRAIRIE HABITAT MANAGEMENT ON LUTHER COLLEGE LANDS
National Endowment for the Humanities
$5,291
COLLECTIONS CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT AT LUTHER COLLEGE LIBRARY
Department of State
$4,800
TO SUPPORT LUTHER COLLEGE (TESOL) TRAIN THE TRAINER PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH IN MALTA WHO ARE CONDUCTING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR THIRD-CO
Department of State
$1,163
GWU/LUTHER COLLEGE ENGLISH ON-GOING TEACHING PROGRAM FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN MALTA.
National Archives and Records Administration
-$6,407.38
ARCHIVES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AT LUTHER COLLEGE
Source: Federal Audit Clearinghouse (fac.gov)
Total Audits
10
Clean Audits
10
Material Weakness
No
Noncompliance Issues
No
| Year | Status | Financial Report | Federal Expenditure | Low Risk | Accepted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $11.2M | Yes | 2025-10-14 |
| 2024 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $12.1M | Yes | 2025-02-05 |
| 2023 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $13.4M | No | 2024-02-13 |
| 2022 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $18.6M | Yes | 2022-10-24 |
| 2021 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $18.8M | Yes | 2021-10-05 |
| 2020 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $19.9M | Yes | 2021-03-20 |
| 2019 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $19.8M | Yes | 2019-09-22 |
| 2018 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $21.2M | Yes | 2018-09-25 |
| 2017 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $21.9M | Yes | 2017-09-20 |
| 2016 | Clean | Unmodified (Clean) | $23M | Yes | 2016-10-04 |
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$11.2M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$12.1M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$13.4M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$18.6M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$18.8M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$19.9M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$19.8M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$21.2M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$21.9M
Financial Report
Unmodified (Clean)
Federal Expenditure
$23M
Source: IRS e-Filed Form 990
No officer or director compensation data available for this organization.
This data is sourced from IRS Form 990, Part VII. It may not be available if the organization files Form 990-N (e-Postcard) or has not yet been enriched.
Source: IRS Publication 78, Auto-Revocation List & e-Postcard Data
Tax-deductible contributions: Yes
Deductibility code: PC
990-N (e-Postcard) Filing History
This organization files simplified Form 990-N (annual gross receipts ≤ $50,000).
Sources: IRS e-Filed Form 990 (XML) & ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
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| Year | Revenue | Contributions | Expenses | Assets | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $113.2M | $10.7M | $120.4M | $305.9M | $266.8M |
| 2022 | $120M | $17.1M | $119.5M | $317.5M | $276.4M |
| 2021 | $126M | $15.5M | $116.8M | $330.1M | $285.4M |
| 2020 | $123.5M | $12.9M | $124.8M | $291.9M |
Sources: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer & IRS e-File Index
Financial data: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (Tax Year 2023)
Federal grants: USAspending.gov (live)
Organization info: IRS Business Master File · ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Tax-deductibility: IRS Publication 78
| $243.8M |
| 2019 | $127.5M | $15.7M | $125.3M | $295.1M | $245.4M |
| 2018 | $120.1M | $12M | $123.1M | $299.2M | $247.6M |
| 2017 | $137.7M | $10.8M | $126.4M | $297.7M | $241.9M |
| 2016 | $129.3M | $12.2M | $126.6M | $291M | $232.2M |
| 2015 | $130.2M | $12.7M | $127.4M | $297.6M | $234.9M |
| 2014 | $130.1M | $12.3M | $123.7M | $295.3M | $232.3M |
| 2013 | $125.7M | $12.3M | $118.6M | $282.1M | $216M |
| 2012 | $119.4M | $9.8M | $114.4M | $261.6M | $197M |
| 2011 | $115.9M | $12.2M | $111.8M | $259.2M | $198.9M |
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