Our Saviour's Lutheran Church Endowment Grant information

Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church is celebrating 80 years as a Christ-centered community and 39 years stewarding the financial blessing of an endowment by making financial gifts into the Tucson community and beyond.

Our mission is being Christ-centered community through faith and action in the heart of Tucson.

Christ-centered: loving God, loving neighbor, open to the world

Community: embracing diversity, LGBTQ+ affirming, caring for one another, stewarding creation

Faith: God's living presence, vibrant Lutheran worship, study/contemplation, embracing the arts.

Action: growth & learning, generosity & service, engagement & advocacy

Our current areas of focus are Expansive Welcome, Housing, Music & the Arts, Our Neighborhood, and Capacity. We seek to reflect our mission, values, and areas of focus in our Endowment Mission Grants.

We invite your application for a 2025 grant. The deadline for all 2025 grants is midnight MST on Thursday, May 1, 2025. We are accepting on-line applications only. Please contact the church office if you need assistance. All applications must be be sponsored by a member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church.

2025 Endowment Grant Application: Click Here.

The Our Saviour's Lutheran Church Endowment Fund is a restricted fund of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, located at 1200 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719. The Fund was established in 1986 upon receipt of an unrestricted bequest, and is administered by the Endowment Committee in accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of Our Saviour's.

The purpose of the Endowment Fund is to enhance the mission outreach of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. The mission of Our Saviour's is being Christ-centered community through faith and action in the heart of Tucson. Our current areas of focus are expansive welcome, housing, music & the arts, and our neighborhood (UA-Banner-Blenman Elm). We are guided, not limited by these areas of focus in awarding grants. 

The Endowment Fund is comprised of the initial bequest and additional contributions (gifts, bequests, or memorials) that have been or may be added to the Fund from time to time, along with a portion of the earnings that accrue to the Fund through investment. Only income earned from the Fund, invested principal, is available for distribution each year.

Grants are intended primarily, but not exclusively, to enhance the ministries of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church and its broader mission, and may include benevolences, special projects, congregational or Synod ministries, community ministries and congregational capital improvements. Grants shall be made for specific ministries rather than to other institutions for their discretionary use.

Requests for funding shall be submitted on forms provided by the Endowment Committee (and available online). 

The award and amount of any grant shall be at the sole discretion of the Endowment Committee. Grant monies shall be paid directly to the congregation, agency, or institution designated by the applicant and agreed upon by the Committee.

*Endowment funds are perpetually invested funds with only the earned income available for distribution as grants or expenditures.