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SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

EIN 38-3002347 EAST LANSING, MI

Largest nonprofits in Michigan

Revenue 2025
$669,797
Expenses 2025
$686,705

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20Z
Classification
7000
Street
1502 RIVER TER

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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 · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL AND THE STRENGTHENING OF GOD'S PEOPLE- CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT, AND ORTHODOX- WORLDWIDE, THROUGH A PROGRAM OF ACTIVE EVANGELISM, CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FORMATION, DOCTRINAL AND MORAL INSTRUCTION, ECUMENISM, AND PROGRAMS FOR THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED.

  • MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES - PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND STRENGTHENING CHRISTIAN LIFE THROUGH A PROGRAM OF ACTIVE EVANGELISM, CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FORMATION, WORLDWIDE MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES, AND DOCTRINAL AND MORAL INSTRUCTION.

    Expenses $327,184 · Grants $124,352 · Revenue $63,277

  • "YOUNG PROFESSIONALS" IS THE TERM WE USE IN THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT TO IDENTIFY OUR MEMBERS THAT HAVE GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND ARE NOT CURRENTLY ATTENDING A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, INCLUDING BOTH MEMBERS THAT HAVE GRADUATED FROM A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION, AS WELL AS MEMBERS THAT OPTED TO PURSUE ANOTHER PATH THAT DIDN'T INVOLVE ATTENDING COLLEGE. MANY OF OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT OUR REGION HAVE ACTIVE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS GROUPS. OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS GROUPS ARE COMPRISED OF MEMBERS THAT FEEL CALLED TO LIVING OUT THEIR FAITH IN AN ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY THAT ALSO HELPS THEM TO GROW AS DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST. THIS CAN LOOK LIKE PARTICIPATING IN BIBLE STUDIES, SERVING IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND PRIORITIZING FELLOWSHIP WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THINGS LIKE BOARD GAME NIGHTS, HIKES, OR CO-ED SPORTS LEAGUES.

    Expenses $1,003

  • KAIROS NORTH AMERICA IS THE REGIONAL YOUTH WORK PROGRAM OF THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. OUR PURPOSE IS TO SERVE THE YOUTH OF THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT BY AWAKENING THEM TO A VENTURESOME FAITH, INVITING THEM TO GIVE A GENEROUS RESPONSE TO THE LORD, AND OFFERING THEM A PLACE TO SERVE. OUR ULTIMATE AIM IN ALL THAT WE DO IS RADICAL, LIFELONG DISCIPLESHIP FOR OURSELVES AND FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE WE SERVE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE TEENAGE YEARS ARE PARTICULARLY IMPACTFUL FOR THE TRAJECTORY OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE, AND AS SUCH, WE SEEK TO ENCOUNTER YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS STAGE OF LIFE THROUGH HIGH IMPACT EVENTS THAT CALL THEM DEEPER INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST AND OPEN THEM UP TO THE ADVENTURE OF DISCIPLESHIP. FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WE OFFER TWO SERVICE PROGRAMS; THE TWO MONTH KAIROS ADVENTURE GUIDE PROGRAM AND THE YEAR LONG GAP PROGRAM. WE ALSO PROVIDE TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO OUR NETWORK OF THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT YOUTH GROUPS AROUND THE REGION AND RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AS THEY TACKLE THE CHALLENGES OF RAISING CHILDREN IN THE MODERN WORLD.

    Expenses $205,906 · Revenue $102,880

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Christopher Deford

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $14,707
    From this org
    $14,707
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • James Munk

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $11,410
    From this org
    $11,410
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Fred Bunsa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stuart Ferguson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Groppel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Hughes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Smith

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Williamson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $669,797
    Expenses
    $686,705
    Contributions
    $469,411
    Grants paid
    $124,352
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $274,655
    Expenses
    $262,584
    Contributions
    $209,819
    Grants paid
    $60,774
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $771,776
    Expenses
    $839,359
    Contributions
    $532,286
    Grants paid
    $121,268
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,234,940
    Expenses
    $1,885,537
    Contributions
    $869,564
    Grants paid
    $158,962

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,158,783
    Expenses
    $3,126,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,109,078

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,730,907
    Expenses
    $2,506,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,185,887

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,596,627
    Expenses
    $2,157,958
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,392,949

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,044,263
    Expenses
    $1,912,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,868,193

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,710,860
    Expenses
    $1,704,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,468,108

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,675,848
    Expenses
    $1,681,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,296,783

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,318,687
    Expenses
    $1,179,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,224,074

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.