Michigan · Nonprofit
LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES
LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,258,041 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,708,181). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Love Inc of the Tri-Cities does
Mission
To exalt jesus christ by mobilizing churches, corporations, and individuals in the tri-cities to meet the needs of our community. Love in action oversees 29 different ministries designed to help those who are hurting physically, spirtually, or emotionally.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Life skills and client assistance - love in action provides over 30 services to needy people in the community including food pantries, furniture, appliances, budget counseling, baby cribs and much more. Love in action is open six days per week and meets with an average of 30 families each day. Love in action also provides financial support for rent and utility bills but requires clients to attend budget counseling to help them avoid the same situation from occurring in the future. Love in action uses 395 community volunteers to deliver its services.
$3,247,872 spent$2,063 earned by the program68% of program spendingOperation of resale stores located in west michigan - love in action receives many material donations from the community. The first thing that is done with the donations is to see if they can be given away in one of the over 30 services it provides. If all needs are met, they then go to their resale store and are sold to the general public. Profits from the resale store are used to fund all the good work that love in action does in the community.
$1,012,986 spent21% of program spendingLove ministry center, llc formed as a michigan limited liability company november 17, 2010. The center operates sheltered housing programs for women and children (one facility) and for men (in another facility). The center uses a holistic approach to encourage personal development and life transformation. All activities are for charitable and educational purposes. Providence place, llc formed as a michigan limited liability company march 3, 2016 for purposes of developing needed infrastructure to help adults and families secure and sustain homes in the community. Eight income-based units, four of which are completely accessible for those living with physical disabilities, have been established. Both of these entities are single member llcs, for which love in action is the sole member. These organizations are aligned with love in action's exempt purpose.
$484,699 spent$37,597 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,745,557.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.6M to $6.8M (+21%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 16% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Josh Bytwerk
Executive director
Board chair
Tracey Weatherwax
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $99k → $262k.
15 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 INC OF THE TRI-CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 29 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 INC OF THE TRI-CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 INC OF THE TRI-CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 67% · 2019 96% · 2020 90% · 2021 72% · 2022 91% · 2023 87% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES'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 $93k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 INC OF THE TRI-CITIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 125 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 125 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Love Ministry Center LLC · disregarded
- Providence Place LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES?
- LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,258,041 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,708,181). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,258,041 in grants to LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES?
- GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,708,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 29 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