- Revenue 2025
- $45,292,051
- Expenses 2025
- $594,302
Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T31
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 6 SHERMAN AVE
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 · 2025
Mission
THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED TO SUPPORT THE GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND WILL SUPPORT THE GREATEST NEEDS OF THE WEST MICHIGAN REGION INCLUDING SUPPORT TO POSITIVELY IMPACT OTTAWA COUNTY AND MUSKEGON COUNTY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE L.J. "MIDGE" VERPLANK COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND IS A SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION WHICH WILL SUPPORT THE PURPOSES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON COMMUNITY NEEDS IN OTTAWA AND MUSKEGON COUNTIES. A SECTION 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION WHICH QUALIFIES AS A PUBLICLY SUPPORTED ORGANIZATION UNDER SECTIONS 509(A)(1) AND 170(B)(1)(A)(VI) OF THE CODE AND OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES THAT ARE CLOSELY RELATED IN PURPOSE OR FUNCTION TO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
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RECEIVE AND ADMINISTER FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF ACTIVITIES RELATED IN PURPOSE OR FUNCTION TO THE GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON COMMUNITY NEEDS IN OTTAWA AND MUSKEGON COUNTIES.
Expenses $500,494 · Grants $500,494
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.
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BARBARA VANHEEST
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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ROB PEEL
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3 + 1 related
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THOMAS CRESWELL
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $45,292,051
- Expenses
- $594,302
- Contributions
- $45,002,304
- Grants paid
- $500,494
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,941,338
- Expenses
- $307,162
- Contributions
- $2,500,000
- Grants paid
- $241,773
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2023
- Revenue
- $5,058,193
- Expenses
- $1,214,145
- Contributions
- $5,050,000
- Grants paid
- $1,210,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $334
- Expenses
- $141
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $30,447
- Expenses
- $20,150
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,359
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets (EOY)
- $0
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.
Grants made
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GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$1,060,000
2023 GRANT MAKING
-
$100,000
2024 Y OF ALL: A CAMPAIGN TO HONOR OUR LEGACY AND BUILD OUR FUTURE
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$100,000
2023 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
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2025 SHORELINE SAILING FOUNDATION - C420 FLEET ADDITIONS
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$60,000
2025 EXPANDING FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
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OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
$51,000
2025 FULFILLING THE ROSY MOUND VISION CAMPAIGN
-
$50,000
2025 CENTRAL PARK REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
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LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION
$50,000
2025 POWERING OUR FUTURE: THE NEXT LAKESHORE GENERATION
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2025 GRANT MAKING
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$40,000
2025 THE LEILA & CYRUS POPPEN HOSPICE RESIDENCE
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 2025 return
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GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
501(C)(3) · AGGREGATE FUNDS TO BE ADMINISTERED FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES · MI
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GRAND HAVEN FOUNDATION SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
501(C)(3) · ASSIST DONORS IN FULFILLING THEIR PHILANTHROPIC & CHARITABLE RESPONSIBILITY · MI · controlled entity
Declared as related by
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GRAND HAVEN FOUNDATION SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
On its 2025 return
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GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
On its 2025 return as a controlled entity
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 SO.
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.