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DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 38-2434184 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

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).

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 — 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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.