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LOCAL FIRST WEST MICHIGAN INC ELIZABETH S HILLARY

EIN 37-2042023 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2025
$395,072
Expenses 2025
$407,010

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S41
Classification
2000
Street
1209 KALAMAZOO AVE 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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

WE LEAD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMY GROUNDED IN LOCAL OWNERSHIP THAT MEETS THE BASIC NEEDS OF PEOPLE, BUILDS LOCAL WEALTH AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, FUNCTIONS IN HARMONY WITH OUR ECOSYSTEM, AND ENCOURAGES JOYFUL COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE BUSINESS EDUCATION, MENTORING, AND NETWORKING

  • CONDUCT MONTHLY MEETINGS FOR BUSINESS MEMBERS TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND SHARE BEST PRACTICES.

  • PROVIDE TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO PROMOTE THE CONCEPT OF SUPPORTING LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tammy Karas

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carlos Martinez

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $112,411
    From this org
    $98,247
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,164
    Hours/week
    40
  • Pablo Garcia

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kaylee Moreno Burke

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Caitlyn Meyers

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Vandermolen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benjamin Cochran

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $395,072
    Expenses
    $407,010
    Contributions
    $23,120
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $593,683
    Expenses
    $537,508
    Contributions
    $172,831
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $645,889
    Expenses
    $592,322
    Contributions
    $247,873
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $384,531
    Expenses
    $530,552
    Contributions
    $0
    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
    $505,347
    Expenses
    $402,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,932
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $419,071
    Expenses
    $356,544
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,859
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $376,763
    Expenses
    $416,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,436
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,349
    Expenses
    $456,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,774
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $393,601
    Expenses
    $559,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,831
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $421,086
    Expenses
    $596,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,166
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $397,106
    Expenses
    $451,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $398,791
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $584,504
    Expenses
    $486,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $453,074
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,076
    Expenses
    $468,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,167
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $252,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $322,850

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.