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AQUME FOUNDATION

EIN 87-2397576 GRANDVILLE, MI

Revenue 2024
$396,381
Expenses 2024
$395,331

Program services were 51.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
4265 BLACKFOOT DR SW

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

AQUME Foundation centers economic justice and racial equity in philanthropy while integrating our core values of equity, financial investment, accountability and community transformation.

  • AQUME Foundations General Operations supports our general operating commitments.Operate in Excellence leadership cultivation,(a program that creates greater comfort for Black leaders operating at C-Suite levels to improve intrapersonal skills, and executive compentencies to professionally shift organizations from under-resourced operations into robust, thriving organizations with increased access to sustainable financial resources), our annual events: 5K Health is Wealth community event, Game Night and Community Free Skate for families to experience joy and build meaningful connections. Our Fiduciary program provides both Project-Specific and Comprehensive fiscal sponsorships that build the capacity of Black leaders leading charitable projects that strive for ecomonic and racial justice and meaningful community transformation. Project-Specific administrative support services are limited to services necessary for receiving and overseeing project sepecific funds, and

    Expenses $115,580

  • AQUME Foundations OUR JUSTICE grant fund leads with innovation and invests in our Black-led organizational missions and community projects that benefit Black people. OUR JUSTICE grant fund awarded ten $2,500 grants to eligible organizations during our 2024 funding cycle. Our community sponsorship of $2,500 distributed to five organizations with each organization receiving $500 directly supports Black leaders and grassroots projects commited to uplifting Black communities. These funds help strengthen local initiatives, foster leadership development, and provide vital resources that address community needs, celebrate Black culture, and advance equity-driven solutions. Our Gold Scholar program is based on our community trust-based philanthropy model, our merit-based program awards two Black students with $1,000 each to support non-traditional college expenses within the first year of college. Our annual scholarship program promotes equity and helps alleviate the

    Expenses $60,687 · Grants $39,500

  • AQUME Foundations Philanthropy Looks Like Me social enterprise program serves greater Grand Rapids area youth and guides a cohort of middle school and high school students through a ten-week program where student entrepreneurs learn how to build a business, generate revenue, and experience the philanthopic impact of collectively giving back to their communities in correlation with the quadruple bottom line of people, planet, profit, and purpose.

    Expenses $25,680

  • (cont pg2)AQUME Foundations General Operations the distribution of Project-Specific funds, whereas our Comprehensive fiscal sponsorship benefit from a suite of administrative services which include, but not limited to bill payments, vendor payments, monthly grant fund(s) expense tracking and grantee reporting, etc.

  • (cont pg2) AQUME Foundations Our Justice pressures of pre-semester college expenses by sending awarded funds directly to the student.

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.

  • CIARRA C ADKINS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $117,642
    From this org
    $117,642
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • TONYA ADKINS-MCKEEVER

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $75,920
    From this org
    $75,920
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHANTAL PASAG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DANGELO BAILEY

    CONSULTANT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARIO L ADKINS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMIE FERRELL

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARCUS A JACKSON

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CHRIS JACKSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ALVIN HILLS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BRYNDAN P ARNOLD

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMARI PICKENS

    CONSULTANT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $396,381
    Expenses
    $395,331
    Contributions
    $403,651
    Grants paid
    $39,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $353,531
    Expenses
    $423,608
    Contributions
    $403,651
    Grants paid
    $67,777
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $255,412
    Expenses
    $229,771
    Contributions
    $297,391
    Grants paid
    $34,844
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $234,943
    Expenses
    $102,512
    Contributions
    $271,795
    Grants paid
    $2,000

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.