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GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION

EIN 38-2837266 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$12,022,942
Expenses 2024
$3,147,260

Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
1000
Street
272 PEARL ST NW

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION IS FUNDRAISING FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM, BUT IT ALSO HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CURRENT AND LONG-TERM VIABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION.

  • THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION'S PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO RAISE FUNDS AND SET THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM WHICH SERVES THE PUBLIC. THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE MUSEUM'S FACILITIES AND ITS COLLECTIONS, WHICH ARE OWNED BY THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS.

    Expenses $2,826,514 · Grants $2,031,514

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LINSEY GLEASON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC FISCHER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICH NOREEN

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • KATIE DEBOER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARLIN FEYEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • YURI VEGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES HAVEMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • STUART BERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FREDRIC N GOLDBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GAVIN MOHR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CYNTHIA PORTER JANES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID M LEONARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYMAN S PARKS JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • CAMERON YOUNG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DALE ROBERTSON

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $247,799
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $232,469
    Other
    $15,330
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $232,469 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $15,330 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $247,799 related

  • SHELBY RENO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSAY SLAGBOOM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE BEHRENWALD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RON YOB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEGAN RYDECKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE DANDRIDGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE WESTRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONA CASWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR GILDA GELY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR JESSE BERNAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,022,942
    Expenses
    $3,147,260
    Contributions
    $9,232,242
    Grants paid
    $2,031,514
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,269,804
    Expenses
    $1,611,210
    Contributions
    $3,364,945
    Grants paid
    $342,003
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,532,161
    Expenses
    $1,416,786
    Contributions
    $2,177,236
    Grants paid
    $198,699

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
    $3,228,941
    Expenses
    $1,586,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,162,560

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,737,904
    Expenses
    $833,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,082,607

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,429,720
    Expenses
    $806,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,014,904

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,418,673
    Expenses
    $844,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,540,987

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,595,223
    Expenses
    $884,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,772,145

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,498,542
    Expenses
    $2,588,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,215,849

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $990,297
    Expenses
    $2,590,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,421,588

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,578,921
    Expenses
    $4,181,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,445,298

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,736,961
    Expenses
    $2,133,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,602,283

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,827,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,472,205

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.