Christian Living Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261126816
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6162355015
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $6,368,265
- Liabilities
- $2,921,903
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Troy Vugteveen (President/CEO, Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Troy Vugteveen (President/CEO, Director): $494,077 total reported compensation
- David Tiesenga (Chief Strategy Officer): $308,452 total reported compensation
- Adam Kinder (Chief Financial Officer): $292,975 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enable its subsidiaries and supported organizations to achieve their purpose in providing services in response to God's calling to serve others (1) with love and compassion, (2) with a commitment to excellence, and (3) following Christ's teachings and example in all the subsidiaries and supported organizations do.
What it reported doing in 2025
Enabling subsidiaries and supported organizations to achieve their purpose in providing services in response to God's calling to serve others (1) with love and compassion, (2) with a commitment to excellence, and (3) following Christ's teachings and example in all the subsidiaries and supported organizations do.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 62.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $494K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 14 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.