WEST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

1000

Street

53 ALTEN AVE NE

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

• Circular and Decarbonized Economy: The Forum is a support network that supports businesses and institutions throughout the state. This network advances the adoption of decarbonization through industry engagement and partnerships, including industry roundtables, resource development, benchmark reports, educational campaigns, peer learning and the development of collaborative opportunities and initiatives.

  Expenses $281,121

• EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY - Sustainable business has a responsibility to work alongside under-resourced populations and communities of color to address historical disparate impacts affecting members of these communities due to public policy or market-based actions. We are highlighting the potential role of the business community as advocates for business practices and civic priorities that advance social and environmental justice.

  Expenses $192,136

• MICHIGAN SUSTAINABILITY FORUMS The Forums are educational and networking programs for sustainability professionals and other stakeholders in Michigan and regional markets. Members are supported by events, digital media, special campaigns, research initiatives, resource development, staff experts and a rotating portfolio of committees, task forces and round tables organized around strategic interests. Through these programs, we create value for businesses, institutions and their employees and students.

  Expenses $120,430

• All other programs

  Expenses $114,142

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.

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

  $826,213

  Expenses

  $842,804

  Contributions

  $826,213

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $876,242

  Expenses

  $651,106

  Contributions

  $876,242

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $501,913

  Expenses

  $458,089

  Contributions

  $501,913

  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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $428,613

  Expenses

  $302,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $214,032

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $192,211

  Expenses

  $216,545

  Assets (EOY)

  $94,970

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $208,195

  Expenses

  $207,324

  Assets (EOY)

  $93,632

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $176,226

  Expenses

  $167,063

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,522

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $175,851

  Expenses

  $161,038

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,858

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $122,696

  Expenses

  $114,965

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,891

• 2015 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $130,582

  Expenses

  $134,449

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,318

• 2014 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $82,680

  Expenses

  $74,290

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,307

• 2012 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $57,441

  Expenses

  $54,128

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,294

• 2010 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $35,392

  Expenses

  $30,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,512

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period

1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011

Principal officer

Eric Van Dellen

Mailing address

PO Box 68696Grand Rapids MI 49516

Website

www.wmsbf.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

• MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND

  $188,300

  2024 · DOUBLING FOOD DONATION IN MICHIGAN

• PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC

  $80,000

  2023 · Program Support

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $60,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO BUILD A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE.

• ECOLOGY CENTER INC

  $55,000

  2023 · SUPPORT ZERO WASTE INITIATIVES

• GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $50,000

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETY BENEFIT-MULTIPURPOSE AND OTHER

• PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC

  $45,000

  2024 · Program Support

• MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION

  $44,000

  2022 · AGRICULTURE, FISHING & FORESTRY, GENERAL - FOOD COUNCIL ACTION TEAM

• FOREFRONT

  $25,000

  2023 · CAPACITY BUILDING/GENERAL SUPPORT

• CHICAGO FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COUNCIL NFP

  $20,000

  2025 · Re-AMP contract amendment to the previous 4k.

• PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC

  $18,000

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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

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