Indiana · Nonprofit
Love Thy Nerd
Love Thy Nerd (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,665 to it, the largest being Lent Family Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $0
What Love Thy Nerd does
Mission
Love Thy Nerd exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conventions/Outreach: Love Thy Nerd, Inc. LLC was able to partner with churches across the country as well as serve with tabletop companies across the globe.
$16,018 spentof which $5,538 as grants51% of program spendingCommunity: In 2024, the ministry established a presence in Europe and the UK with opportunities for upcoming years already on the calendar.
$10,372 spent33% of program spendingContent: LTN was also able to launch a daily audio Bible Playlist allowing for easier access to scriptural content on Spotify, Youtube and our website.
$4,804 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,194.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $30k to $0 (−100%).
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.
94% of Love Thy Nerd’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Michael Stallcup
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $426 → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Thy Nerd’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Thy Nerd leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“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
Love Thy Nerd draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Thy Nerd's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Love Thy Nerd
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Thy Nerd: 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 Thy Nerd?
- Love Thy Nerd (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,665 to it, the largest being Lent Family Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Love Thy Nerd have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,665 in grants to Love Thy Nerd, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Love Thy Nerd?
- Lent Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Love Thy Nerd find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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