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LOCAL FIRST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

EIN 20-4696543 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2025
$586,163
Expenses 2025
$699,452

Program services were 47.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S99
Classification
1000
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).

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

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMUEL SEDLECKY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARLOS MARTINEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAYLEE MORENO BURKE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KYAMA KITAVI

    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 — 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
    $586,163
    Expenses
    $699,452
    Contributions
    $579,277
    Grants paid
    $23,120
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $972,764
    Expenses
    $879,468
    Contributions
    $946,661
    Grants paid
    $63,331
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $506,027
    Expenses
    $657,928
    Contributions
    $282,487
    Grants paid
    $247,873
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $389,138
    Expenses
    $397,308
    Contributions
    $389,595
    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.

Grants made

  • LOCAL FIRST OF WEST MICHIGAN

    $247,873

    2023 TO HOLD COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH, EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, AND WORK TOWARD LESSENING ECONOMIC DISPARITIES AND CREATE AND RETAIN LOCAL JOBS AND RESOURCES.

  • LOCAL FIRST OF WEST MICHIGAN

    $63,311

    2024 TO HOLD COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH, EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, AND WORK TOWARD LESSENING ECONOMIC DISPARITIES AND CREATE AND RETAIN LOCAL JOBS AND RESOURCES.

  • LOCAL FIRST OF WEST MICHIGAN

    $23,120

    2025 TO HOLD COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH, EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, AND WORK TOWARD LESSENING ECONOMIC DISPARITIES AND CREATE AND RETAIN LOCAL JOBS AND RESOURCES.

Where these grants went next →

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

Listed as of 10 September 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.