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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES.

Totals

Total revenue
$752,655
Total expenses
$280,097
Contributions and grants received
$752,655
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$974,718
Total liabilities, end of year
$707
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$974,011
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$268,754
Management and general expenses
$11,343
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$268,754

Program services were 96.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $752,655

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $54,044 · program services $54,044

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $4,134 · program services $4,134

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $11,343 · management and general $11,343

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $49,842 · program services $49,842

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $4,289 · program services $4,289

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $5,477 · program services $5,477

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $45,772 · program services $45,772

  • 17 · Travel

    total $30,709 · program services $30,709

  • 20 · Interest

    total -$2,131 · program services -$2,131

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $21,030 · program services $21,030

  • 24a · Other expenses: PARKING

    total $1,486 · program services $1,486

  • 24b · Other expenses: ARTIFACTS

    total $5,300 · program services $5,300

  • 24c · Other expenses: EVENTS

    total $27,098 · program services $27,098

  • 24d · Other expenses: FOOD

    total $915 · program services $915

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $20,789 · program services $20,789

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $478,228 · end of year $517,254

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $457,464

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $457,464

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $612 · end of year $707

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $497,616 · end of year $974,011

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ORGANIZATIONS PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: TO COLLECT, PRESERVE AND HONOR THE RICH HISTORYDOCUMENTED BY THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STORIES OF WEST MICHIGAN AFRICIAN AMERICANS.

  • Achievements: History Projects: Tribute to Cleo Cross banquet and awards ; Never to be Erased Bus tour to South Carolina; Million Man March Celebration photo exhibition; Rosa Parks tribute; archives exhibit; Local Activists exhibit memorabilia and photographs

    Expenses $115,887

  • Achievements: Community Activities: Third Ward Legacy Tour; digital kiosks displays ; Hall of Fame salute to Jess Elster; Community Historians Workshops; Grand Rapids 175 exhibit banners display; Kids Kwanzaa interactive learning; Moving Celebration at new location.

    Expenses $97,124

  • Achievements: Art and Culture: Artprize - Last Days and Time artists Carla Harden ,Isabella Picardi, Mike Farrell, Maya James art exhibit. Storytelling with Grandma Lo live storytelling to young people; Carol Johnson art exhibit.

    Expenses $55,743

  • Featured exbihits including Never to be Erased Tour, 50 years of Hip Hop exhibit, Negro League Baseball exhibit and the Anniversary of the Civil Rights Bill.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Deborah Pryor

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carolyn Ferrari

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Teresa Payne

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Isaac Norris

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard App

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jordoun Eastman

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sauda Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Curtis

    BOARD CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • George Bayard

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Fran Dalton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Loree Franks

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victor Holt

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
8 September 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202622609349302052

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