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MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES

EIN 38-1410467 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$24,750,248
Expenses 2024
$19,331,171

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1700
Street
225 COMMERCE AVE SW

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).

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.

  • TONY PEARSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • STEVE KELLY

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARY HOLLEBEEK

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BRUCE BUSH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KURT HEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHALESHA KYES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATE PLANTINGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT WORTHINGTON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANEDRA EATMAN

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVE BYERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICH CRAIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DALE MCNINCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANIS PETRINI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GORDON OOSTING

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $134,348
    From this org
    $119,414
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,934
    Hours/week
    45 + 4 related

  • ADRIENNE GOODSTAL

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $110,674
    From this org
    $93,364
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,310
    Hours/week
    45 + 2 related

  • MICHELE MCISSAC

    CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $98,283
    From this org
    $92,590
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,693
    Hours/week
    45

  • CHRISTOPHER PALUSKY

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $38,134
    From this org
    $36,017
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,117
    Hours/week
    45 + 2 related

  • DENNIS VAN KAMPEN

    PAST CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $16,803
    From this org
    $13,758
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,045
    Hours/week
    45 + 2 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $24,750,248
    Expenses
    $19,331,171
    Contributions
    $19,176,900
    Grants paid
    $2,474,744
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,027,531
    Expenses
    $18,025,191
    Contributions
    $14,751,139
    Grants paid
    $2,380,773
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $22,892,534
    Expenses
    $19,918,496
    Contributions
    $18,681,911
    Grants paid
    $2,498,847

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • MEL TROTTER MISSION THRIFT LLC

    OPERATE THRIFT STORES FOR MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES · MI · income $4,435,008 · assets $4,994,760

  • MTM HOUSING LLC

    HOLD MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS FOR MEL TROTTER · MI · income $286,974 · assets $1,851,179

  • MTM MC LLC

    HOLD MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS FOR MEL TROTTER · MI

  • MTM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    HOLD MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS FOR MEL TROTTER · MI

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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.