Real Love Ministries International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830940328
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Granite Falls, NC, USA
Phone
8157900317
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$209,443
Expenses
$210,315
Assets
$10,664
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelley Wilson (Vice-President)
  • Scott Swanson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Dave Cook (Treasurer)
  • Karen Criminger (Board Member)
  • Kelley Wilson (Vice-President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

RLMI is organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Our Mission is to minister to the Haitian people beginning in the village of Laffiteau seeking to share the love of Jesus with each individual and discipling those who know Jesus as Savior. Our approach is holistic ministry by ministering to the needs of the total person: physical emotional and spiritual. Our Vision as an organization following Jesus Christ we exist to bring love and life transformation to every man woman and child in Haiti. In our ministry we desire to serve the nation of Haiti and to see lives changed. Our passion is to see the hopeless find hope through Jesus Christ and empower future generations to bring Haiti out of poverty. The keywords that describe the focus of our ministry are: ENGAGE Building relationships through Christs love. EQUIP Providing resources to meet physical emotional and spiritual needs. EMPOWER Creating opportunities to sustain change.

What it reported doing in 2025

Growing up in one of the worlds most impoverished nations presents many challenges to surviving let alone thriving. Many children are abandoned to the streets of Haiti or live in dire circumstances. We provide a loving home for up to 20 children and young adults in our Childrens Home and Transition Program at our Mountain Campus. Beyond the basic necessities of life we provide an education spiritual nurture and life-skills training. The children & young adults are well-fed cared for and have their physical emotional and spiritual needs met by a loving staff. They attend school and church and fill their free time with fun engaging activities at our home. It is our goal to equip them to be servant leaders that will empower a new and vibrant Haiti.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3,490.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -50.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -68.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $196K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.