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← CHRISTNET

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CHRISTNET.

Totals

Total revenue
$235,748
Total expenses
$322,903
Contributions and grants received
$235,663
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$85
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$318,079
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,790
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$316,289
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$228,120
Management and general expenses
$87,982
Fundraising expenses
$6,801
Program service expenses (Part III)
$228,120

Program services were 70.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $72,975

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $105,690

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $56,998

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $85 · related or exempt $85 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $66,174

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $50,500 · program services $0 · management and general $50,500

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $80,110 · program services $80,110

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $13,073 · management and general $13,073

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,948 · management and general $3,948

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $349 · management and general $349

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $12,607 · program services $3,718 · management and general $8,889

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,612 · program services $4,612

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $27,165 · program services $27,165

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $7,977 · management and general $7,977

  • 24a · Other expenses: Transportation

    total $47,556 · program services $47,556 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Food

    total $29,320 · program services $29,320 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Household Supplies

    total $35,639 · program services $35,639 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: Vanastic Fundraiser

    total $6,801 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $6,801

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $3,246 · management and general $3,246

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $103,419 · end of year $31,758

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $300,025 · end of year $286,321

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $1,790

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $403,444 · end of year $316,289

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

A shared ministry with over fifty churches from various denominations who help to house and feed the homeless. Our guests receive a safe place to stay over night plus three meals. We also have a day program open year round where guests are offered food, fellowship, and special assistance. Day center open this year offering shelter during the day, showers, laundry, and access to community resources.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Christnet also has a daytime year round center that intends to help anyone who is homeless find housing, employment, medical care, and other services. Laundry services and showers are also available. A safe place to spend the day along with breakfast, a hot lunch, fellowship all take place at the day center. Christnet is homeless shelter that provides overnight housing to men, women, and children for 13 weeks every year. Christnet is a shared ministry of over fifty churches in the downriver/Dearborn area of various denominations coming together to host guests at their church for a week. Providing a hot meal and two other meals, and a safe place to stay the night.

  • Day Program - This program opened December 15, 2008. Is it open to the homeless seven days a week. The focus at the Daytime Center is job skill development, and ultimately obtaining stable housing for our guests all the while serving a safe place from the streets. In addition to serving breakfast and lunch, the Daytime Center has clothes washing facilities and showers. In addition to serving the homeless population, our daytime program attracts neighbors who are housed, but in need of food services through our daily hot lunch program.

    Expenses $180,013 · Revenue $55,598

  • Evening Program - Operating for 13 weeks in the winter. Guests are hosted overnight at a partnership church. The church rotates weekly. Overnight stays included a hot meal and fellowship. Our nighttime program operated this year for thirteen weeks. Within this short time frame we provided 2,230 safe nights.

    Expenses $1,167 · Revenue $84,698

  • Transportation: Guest are driven to and from our host church. During the day guests are also driven to doctors appointments

    Expenses $46,940 · Revenue $22,393

  • Vantastic Fund Raiser

    Revenue $72,975

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Rickie Rickman

    President

    Total calculated
    $21,538
    From this org
    $21,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60
  • Joan Forest

    Founder

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Randy Ruppel

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Rebecca Markey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
25 April 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202511159349301961

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