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EIN 20-5638361 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$2,769,577
Expenses 2024
$2,639,408

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1000
Street
100 GARDEN ST SE

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

A FAITH BASED ORGANIZATION EMPLOYING PEOPLE COMING OUT OF PRISON OR REHAB AND PROVIDING THEM WITH A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT THAT WILL HELP THEM INTEGRATE INTO THE WORKFORCE, REGAIN HOPE AND EMPOWER THEMSELVES TO CREATE A BETTER FUTURE.

  • TO PROVIDE JOBS FOR THOSE STRUGGLING TO FIND EMPLOYMENT, NEXT STEP OFFERS CONSTRUCTION, PROPERTY MAINTENANCE, ASSEMBLY AND PRODUCTION SERVICES WITH COMPETITIVE PRICING AND TIMELY DELIVERY. THE CREWS ARE SUPERVISED BY LICENSED PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE THE SENSITIVITY AND HEART FOR THE INDIVIDUALS THEY SUPERVISE. IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, NEXT STEP PROVIDED FULL OR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FIND JOBS ELSEWHERE, PROVIDING ITS EMPLOYEES WITH THE DIGNITY AND STABILITY THAT EMPLOYMENT OFFERS. NEXT STEP EMPLOYEES START EACH DAY WITH BIBLE STUDY, AND THEY ARE ASSISTED IN FINDING HOUSING AND MENTORED IN LIFE SKILLS FOR A HOPEFUL FUTURE.

    Expenses $2,032,344 · Revenue $1,886,058

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.

  • JESHUA LAUKA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GORDON OOSTING

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $134,348
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $119,414
    Other
    $14,934
    Hours/week
    2 + 45 related

  • CHRISTOPHER PALUSKY

    PRESIDENT

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

  • ROBERT WORTHINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENNIS VANKAMPEN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $16,806
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $13,758
    Other
    $3,048
    Hours/week
    2 + 45 related

  • DAVID BULT

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $141,498
    From this org
    $111,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,221
    Hours/week
    50

  • ADRIENNE GOODSTAL

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $110,674
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $93,364
    Other
    $17,310
    Hours/week
    2 + 45 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
    $2,769,577
    Expenses
    $2,639,408
    Contributions
    $883,519
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,893,877
    Expenses
    $1,557,093
    Contributions
    $556,243
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,749,512
    Expenses
    $1,576,974
    Contributions
    $439,529
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,948,657
    Expenses
    $1,459,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,552,348

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,042,566
    Expenses
    $1,165,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,095,128

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,195,145
    Expenses
    $1,004,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,647,588

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $919,539
    Expenses
    $811,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,429,955

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,639,398
    Expenses
    $883,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,355,004

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,405,860
    Expenses
    $857,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,849,317

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,183,463
    Expenses
    $1,090,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,828,547

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,673,463
    Expenses
    $1,090,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,318,547

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,258,387
    Expenses
    $1,676,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,312,911

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $12,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $281,792

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

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

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

  • MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES

    501(C)(3) · RESCUE AND RESTORATION FOR ANYONE EXPERIENCING HUNGER OR HOMELESSNESS. · MI · controlled entity

  • MTM SUPPORT CORPORATION

    501(C)(3) · TO SUPPORT MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES GENERAL OPERATIONS · MI · controlled entity

  • MTM HOUSING LLC

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES · MI · controlled entity

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.