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EIN 27-0640886 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$10,788,371
Expenses 2024
$11,465,683

Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
401 HALL STREET SW STE 385

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 · 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.

  • KATE PEW WOLTERS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEW CHAMBERLIN

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH SAYLES

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEAH ATKINS

    PARENT LEADER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA BARBOUR

    DIRECTOR THRU 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GUILLERMO CISNEROS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN CLAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REV HOWARD C EARLE JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HANNA C JAWORSKI MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELINDA JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR THRU 9/21/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FLORA MA

    PARENT LEADER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRASHAWN MARTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SEAN WELSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDY THELEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE VAN DYKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANTHONY QUEEN

    PARENT LEADER THRU 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KELSEY PERDUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY CANTOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR RON GORMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TANIAH INGRAM

    PARENT LEADER BEGAN 3/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLAUDIA JONES

    DIRECTOR BEGAN 3/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATE PINKHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER HEADLEY-NORDMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $166,461
    From this org
    $150,843
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,618
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,843
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,063
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,555
    Filer's total
    $166,461

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. 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
    $10,788,371
    Expenses
    $11,465,683
    Contributions
    $10,760,907
    Grants paid
    $9,755,324
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,965,156
    Expenses
    $11,930,968
    Contributions
    $12,924,797
    Grants paid
    $9,996,503
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,520,422
    Expenses
    $10,890,715
    Contributions
    $717,150
    Grants paid
    $9,356,431

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

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

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.