Lutheran Social Services of Alaska

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“Executive director compensation is arrived at by careful consideration of the entire board. Independent salary comparability studies are obtained from a local not-for-profit assistance association as well as online research is conducted for related materials.”

“All governing documents and financial statements as well as form 990 are available for public inspection at the offices of the organization upon request.”

“Food pantry in fy25 we distributed 514,727 pounds of food to 14,599 households or 31,969 individuals. These numbers are tracked through pantrysoft registration system. Each household has a record of the number of people living in the household by age. These numbers are down from fy24 as the covid supplemental federal food programs had ended. The lssa food pantry is open four days a week, tuesday-friday for 3 hours each day. Mobile food pantry in fy25 our mobile food pantry distributed 237,435 pounds of food to 9,136 households or 31,367 individuals from our distribution site in the parking lot of lutheran church of hope located at 1847 w. Northern lights blvd. We operate every tuesday from 3:30pm to 6:00pm unless it is a holiday or if we cancel due weather. We track the registration that we report to the food bank of alaska. The food bank weighs the food before they bring it to the site for distribution.”

“Roosevelt roosevelt house is a housing unit that have operated since 1994 for individuals with behavioral health issues located at 2300 roosevelt drive and consists of 5 one bedroom units and 1 two bedroom unit apartments. During fy25 we had 4 one bedroom units occupied close to 100% with one unit closed for renovation. The two bedroom unit was occupied 100% of the time. Transitional living program (tlp) tlp has been a program of lssa of lssa since 1994 also. This four apartment building located at 804 w. 16th avenue. It is a program for single homeless men. We have a resident manager who lives in one of the unit and the other 3 units house one individual. In june 2025 the board has decided to sell the building as we have numerous problems that are very costly to fix. We did some work on the building getting ready for sale and it went on the market december 2025 after the last tenant moved out.”

“Direct assistance we helped the following in our direct assistance programs. Birth certificate (alaskan born) 403 birth certificates (born out of state) 57 alaska state ids 837 alaka drivers license 13 restricted alaskan ids or driver license 18 new program for lssa this fy was real ids and driver license real ids 52 real driver license 55 bus passes 7 gas cards 55 carrs/safeway gift cards 35 prescription help 12 utiity assistance 8 rental assistance 8 stranded rural alaskans 6 we helped 1,464 individuals with vouchers for these programs in fy25. The reason for the increase has been those needing real ids that the federal government implemented on may 7, 2025. We track this information in formstack. Medical transportation anyone seeking transportation to and from doctors appointment or medical procedures can call us for a ride in our program with alaska yellow cab. We provided 349 clients with more than 650 rides. We track this information on an excel spreadsheet. Golden connections our newest program is golden connections which is a program that helps seniors fight isolation that we all experienced during covid 19. We host monthly if not twice programs with lunch; such as gci cell phone classes, valentine day party, thanksgiving, christmas, a city sightseeing tour, day at the museum, tour of the botanical gardens, cooking classes, summer picnic at kincaid park, etc. We have over 300 seniors connected with us and hold to continue grow this program.”

“Special event expenses 27,208 special event expenses -27,208”