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DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 38-2434184 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

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Revenue 2024
$3,751,094
Expenses 2024
$3,445,480

Program services were 94.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B114
Classification
1000
Street
6191 KRAFT 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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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 · 2024

Mission

TO SECURE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE PURPOSE OF GROWING THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT, STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEEDED PROGRAMS AND CAPITAL PROJECTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE FUNDRAISING FOR DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY

  • PROVIDED SUPPORT TO ASSIST DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, INCLUDING THE FUNDING OF PROGRAMS, THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO THE UNIVERSITY, THE FUNDING OF SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OTHER SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $3,244,693 · Grants $3,244,693

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.

  • William Lettinga

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rachel Mraz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • James Albers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anthony Anderson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $383,206
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $300,200
    Other
    $83,006
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $207,772 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $67,760 related
    Other
    $0 + $24,668 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $40,274 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $42,732 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $383,206 related
  • Chad Bassett

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Geerlings

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Lumpp

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Pappas

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $800,983
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $575,108
    Other
    $225,875
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $383,008 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $149,747 related
    Other
    $0 + $42,353 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $190,346 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $35,529 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $800,983 related
  • Ralph Slider

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Zylstra

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rachel Render

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $365,570
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $258,839
    Other
    $106,731
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $178,241 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $59,052 related
    Other
    $0 + $21,546 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $64,205 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $42,526 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $365,570 related
  • David Veneklase

    FORMER INTERIM TREASURER/SECRETARY/EVP FOR FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $1,089,454
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,089,454
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $1,089,454 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $1,089,454 related

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
    $3,751,094
    Expenses
    $3,445,480
    Contributions
    $1,360,109
    Grants paid
    $3,244,693
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,672,537
    Expenses
    $3,056,491
    Contributions
    $2,106,545
    Grants paid
    $2,896,290
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,423,738
    Expenses
    $5,062,254
    Contributions
    $1,907,675
    Grants paid
    $4,914,722

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
    $6,158,659
    Expenses
    $1,715,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,303,700
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,144,742
    Expenses
    $1,255,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,322,868
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,369,564
    Expenses
    $1,552,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,713,129
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,912,889
    Expenses
    $1,641,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,275,058
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,870,237
    Expenses
    $1,401,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,623,123
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,649,750
    Expenses
    $3,116,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,533,547
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,432
    Expenses
    $1,418,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,170,149
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,826,911
    Expenses
    $2,502,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,559,782
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,796,062
    Expenses
    $2,174,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,788,275
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,017,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,322,542

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

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Grants received

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 SOUNK.

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