- Revenue 2024
- $12,022,942
- Expenses 2024
- $3,147,260
Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A50
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 272 PEARL ST NW
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
Mission
THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION IS FUNDRAISING FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM, BUT IT ALSO HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CURRENT AND LONG-TERM VIABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION.
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THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION'S PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO RAISE FUNDS AND SET THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM WHICH SERVES THE PUBLIC. THE GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE MUSEUM'S FACILITIES AND ITS COLLECTIONS, WHICH ARE OWNED BY THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS.
Expenses $2,826,514 · Grants $2,031,514
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.
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LINSEY GLEASON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ERIC FISCHER
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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RICH NOREEN
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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KATIE DEBOER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARLIN FEYEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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YURI VEGA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAMES HAVEMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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STUART BERMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FREDRIC N GOLDBERG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GAVIN MOHR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CYNTHIA PORTER JANES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID M LEONARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LYMAN S PARKS JR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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CAMERON YOUNG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DALE ROBERTSON
PRESIDENT/CEO
- Total calculated
- $247,799
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $232,469
- Other
- $15,330
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $232,469 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $15,330 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $247,799 related
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SHELBY RENO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LINDSAY SLAGBOOM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHELLE BEHRENWALD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RON YOB
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MEGAN RYDECKI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NICOLE DANDRIDGE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JULIE WESTRA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RONA CASWELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DR GILDA GELY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DR JESSE BERNAL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
The first 25 listed. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $12,022,942
- Expenses
- $3,147,260
- Contributions
- $9,232,242
- Grants paid
- $2,031,514
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,269,804
- Expenses
- $1,611,210
- Contributions
- $3,364,945
- Grants paid
- $342,003
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2022
- Revenue
- $2,532,161
- Expenses
- $1,416,786
- Contributions
- $2,177,236
- Grants paid
- $198,699
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
- $3,228,941
- Expenses
- $1,586,778
- Assets (EOY)
- $47,162,560
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,737,904
- Expenses
- $833,232
- Assets (EOY)
- $50,082,607
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,429,720
- Expenses
- $806,972
- Assets (EOY)
- $41,014,904
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,418,673
- Expenses
- $844,147
- Assets (EOY)
- $40,540,987
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,595,223
- Expenses
- $884,831
- Assets (EOY)
- $37,772,145
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,498,542
- Expenses
- $2,588,964
- Assets (EOY)
- $35,215,849
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $990,297
- Expenses
- $2,590,024
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,421,588
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,578,921
- Expenses
- $4,181,441
- Assets (EOY)
- $36,445,298
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,736,961
- Expenses
- $2,133,405
- Assets (EOY)
- $37,602,283
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $3,827,195
- Assets (EOY)
- $35,472,205
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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$2,031,514
2024 PROGRAM SERVICE
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$342,003
2023 PROGRAM SERVICE
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$198,699
2022 PROGRAM SERVICE
Grants received
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$250,000
2022
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GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$156,500
2024 MULTIPLE GRANTS AWARDED
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2022 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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2023 MULTIPLE GRANTS AWARDED
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2024 MUSEUMS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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
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501(C)(3) · EXTEND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT · MI
Declared as related by
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On its 2024 return
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 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.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.