The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
How to apply
Deadlines
Restrictions
Send applications to
Not publishedGRAND RAPIDS, MI, 49546The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2020 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 5 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2020).
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$843K
FY2020 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$0
FY2020 · end of year
Revenue
$2,934
FY2020
Expenses
$847K
FY2020
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2020
990-PF
$2,934
$847,271
$843,438
$0
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Arts and culture$25.5K · 4
Health care$7,500 · 3
Human services$4,500 · 6
Housing$1,000 · 1
Where recipients are
MI$1M · 45
Based on the 60% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
45 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
GRAND RAPIDS FOUNDATIONGRAND RAPIDS, MI
GENERAL FUND
$832,938
2020
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
David Keyser
TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT
1
$0
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATIONS FOR OPERATIONS
$7,000
2018
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATIONS FOR OPERATIONS
$7,000
2019
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATIONS FOR OPERATIONS
$6,500
2016
WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURALGRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$5,000
2017
WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURALGRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$5,000
2018
FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENSGRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$5,000
2019
WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURALGRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$5,000
2016
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATIONS FOR OPERATIONS
$5,000
2017
SPECTRUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONGRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$4,000
2019
HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$3,000
2017
HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI
DONATION FOR OPERATIONS
$2,500
2016
HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALMatched to this organization because 4 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.GRAND RAPIDS, MI