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RADIANT LIFE MINISTRIES

EIN 31-1127916 MARION, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$36,139,228
Expenses 2024
$112,011,200

Program services were 95.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30Z
Classification
1000
Street
11717 ROUTE 37

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING

  • THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE BROADCAST OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED, HEALED, AND MINISTERED TO IN COUNTLESS WAYS THROUGH THIS TELEVISION NETWORK.

    Expenses $107,003,967 · Grants $90,000,000 · Revenue $9,299,905

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Bunker Sessions

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $238,509
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $238,509
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $238,509 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $238,509 related
  • Frank Amedia

    BOARD CHAPLIN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Charlie Baker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Matthew Crouch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Colby May

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related
  • Steven Crum

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $206,536
    From this org
    $164,179
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,357
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,179
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $42,357
    Filer's total
    $206,536
  • Lance Cratty

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $110,261
    From this org
    $110,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • Tom Nolan

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $189,004
    From this org
    $146,647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,357
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,647
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $42,357
    Filer's total
    $189,004
  • Dale Schiesser

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $106,819
    From this org
    $106,819
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • Nishantha Udugama

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $102,319
    From this org
    $102,319
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $36,139,228
    Expenses
    $112,011,200
    Contributions
    $4,893,890
    Grants paid
    $90,000,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,707,616
    Expenses
    $19,756,862
    Contributions
    $4,926,150
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,183,976
    Expenses
    $17,711,421
    Contributions
    $5,015,033
    Grants paid
    $60,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,938,808
    Expenses
    $16,972,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,965,953
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,938,808
    Expenses
    $16,972,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,965,953
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,582,812
    Expenses
    $12,406,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,173,150
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,065,505
    Expenses
    $8,641,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $168,999,906
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,091,308
    Expenses
    $7,380,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,172,127
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $166,035,137
    Expenses
    $6,308,534
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,999,058
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,970,335
    Expenses
    $5,618,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,883,229
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,084,984
    Expenses
    $4,856,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,449,049

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • CROSSSEED INC

    $60,000,000

    2024 THE BOARD BELIEVES THE DONATION TO BE DESIRABLE TO AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COMPANY.

  • 2024 THE BOARD BELIEVES THE DONATION TO BE DESIRABLE TO AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COMPANY.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.