Lutheran Family Services
Legal name: Omaha Church Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470491272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Omaha, NE, United States
- Phone
- 402-441-7940
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,758,610
- Expenses
- $5,929,699
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS TONNIGES (SECRETARY/PRES & CEO-LFS)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS TONNIGES (SECRETARY/PRES & CEO-LFS): $272,469 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lutheran Family Services expresses God’s love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family, and community life. We Achieve Our Mission Through These Broad Service Areas Behavioral Health Providing professional support and therapies for children, individuals, families, and groups. A small child wearing a red hoodie plants a vegetable with the assistance of two men on each side. 05.22.2026 | Blog Global Roots and Emergency Fund Support Lexington Families After Tyson Closure The Tyson plant closure sent shockwaves through the Lexington community, and families across the city felt the impact immediately. Jobs were lost, routines were disrupted, and uncertainty loomed. Lutheran Family Services (LFS) is responding...
What it reported doing in 2022
Omaha church center (occ) owns and manages the property of lutheran family services of Nebraska, inc. (lfs). Occ leases the properties to lfs, and may also lease to other church-related entities and other not-for-profit entities, in addition to providing facilities management services for the buildings. Occ currently owns and leases three buildings to lfs, one of which is located at 24th and dodge street in omaha, and one each in fremont and north platte.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -237.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $272K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.