Michigan · Nonprofit
Love in the Name of Christ
Love in the Name of Christ (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,516 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $836k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $982k
What Love in the Name of Christ does
Mission
Love In the Name of Christ exists to mobilize local churches to transform lives and communities In the Name of Christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pantry and Resource Coordination - Love INC provides support to and coordinates with over 35 church and community resources. Love INC volunteers and staff are available to the community through regular office hours in Hamilton, Allegan and Pullman. Individuals and families in need are met by trained personnel who assess the situation, provide access to resources and a time of prayer. Resources available through Love INC include food, clothing, furniture, bikes, bedding, household goods and handicap ramps. Donated clothing and household goods which are not used to help families are sold through the Heart to Heart resale store whose proceeds support the mission of Love INC.
$342,863 spentof which $1,741 as grants$319,267 earned by the program47% of program spendingLIFE skills program provides meaningful, long-term relational help through the Learning in Finances and Everyday skills. The class meets weekly throughout the year for both classroom time and individual mentoring. By attending classes and meeting goals, the participants earn vouchers for access to pantry resources. Long-term goals are achieved through relationships that provide encouragement, financial guidance and accountability. This program served adults and children from 69 families during 2025.
$220,208 spent30% of program spendingThe idea for Homes of Hope started in 2023 as a program to get families into stable housing that they can own. Funds have been raised to purchase mobile homes which have been rehabilitated by volunteers. In 2025, 3 families were blessed with homes and volunteer mentors to assist them in their home ownership. We are in the process of renovating 2 additional homes for occupancy in 2026. Professional volunteers provided $8,040 of plumbing, electrical, drywall and carpenter services in 2025.
$170,567 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $733,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $937k to $1.1M (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Love in the Name of Christ’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Barry Lucas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $11k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Love in the Name of Christ’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Love in the Name of Christ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Love in the Name of Christ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 83% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
93% of Love in the Name of Christ's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Love in the Name of Christ is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Love in the Name of Christ
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Love in the Name of Christ: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Love in the Name of Christ?
- Love in the Name of Christ (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,516 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Love in the Name of Christ have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $54,516 in grants to Love in the Name of Christ, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Love in the Name of Christ?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Love in the Name of Christ find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing