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FERRIS FOUNDATION

EIN 38-6115813 BIG RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$12,550,062
Expenses 2024
$11,429,785

Program services were 97.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
420 OAK STREET PRAKKEN 101

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.

  • SUSAN JONES

    BOARD MEMBER/PROFESSOR OF

    Total calculated
    $234,277
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $191,940
    Other
    $42,337
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $191,940 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $42,337 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $234,277 related

  • MATTHEW BISSETT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • PAUL DOYLE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DENISE GRAVES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR JEAN K ELDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR DANA KING

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR DAVID PILGRIM

    BOARD MEMBER/PROFESSOR OF

    Total calculated
    $285,087
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $235,159
    Other
    $49,928
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $235,159 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $49,928 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $285,087 related

  • JENIFER CUTTER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • ARLEN-DEAN GADDY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • GARY GRANGER

    BOARD MEMBER/PART-YEAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • EMILY HANCOCK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • CHRISTINE VISNER

    BOARD MEMBER/PART-YEAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • KURT HOFMAN

    BOARD MEMBER/PART-YEAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR JOHN ENGELMAN II

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • ANDREW KALINOWSKI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • RUSSELL VISNER

    BOARD MEMBER/PART-YEAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MATTHEW NAWROCKI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR THOMAS P SCHOLLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • RICHARD SHAW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • KEVIN SIMON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • DR ALTON SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • HOWARD C STROSS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • JEREMY AMSHEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • SARAH CHADWICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • SHANE NAPPER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,550,062
    Expenses
    $11,429,785
    Contributions
    $5,793,762
    Grants paid
    $9,490,722
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,812,102
    Expenses
    $8,371,228
    Contributions
    $5,109,404
    Grants paid
    $7,808,230
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,366,973
    Expenses
    $7,184,957
    Contributions
    $5,917,082
    Grants paid
    $6,599,973

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.