Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Grand Rapids, Michigan

142
foundations with a Grand Rapids address
$323.5M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
34
say they accept unsolicited
$5,325
median grant

Grantlas lists 142 foundations that gave a Grand Rapids, Michigan address on their tax filing — 136 private foundations and 6 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $323.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 34 of them (24%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Grand Rapids foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 142 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 9 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Wege Foundation$21.8M$21.8M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation$32,500$11.5M$500–$4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation$30,000$10.5M$500–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
G II Charities$10.1M$10.3M$9.9M–$10.3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The David and Carol Van Andel Family$50,500$8.4M$1,000–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation$20,000$7.1M$500–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Frey Foundation$5,000$4.8M$50–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation$7,500$4.3M$250–$233,334FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cdv5 Foundation$25,000$4.2M$7,500–$925,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mojo Foundation$20,000$3.8M$2,000–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Krw Foundation$50,000$2.8M$5,000–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Frank B and Virginia V Fehsenfeld$1.5M$1.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert W and Lynn H Browne Foundation$25,000$985,000$5,000–$530,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Me Davenport Fund$20,000$919,000$5,000–$435,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Keller Foundation$5,150$416,000$500–$62,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Leslie Tassell Foundation$2,000$370,850$500–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Tremble Foundation$10,000$241,200$2,500–$33,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
BISSELL Pet Foundation$1,503$210,021$157–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Beusse & Porter Family Foundation$5,000$199,000$500–$21,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Panthera Edge Foundation$2,600$191,254$250–$13,757FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
West Michigan Alliance for Veterans$2,375$149,737$500–$25,637FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James and Shirley Balk Foundation$3,000$146,700$500–$60,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
A Verner Nelson and H Elizabeth Nelson Foundation$13,250$113,536$7,386–$55,400FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation$1,200$94,800One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bjb Charitable Trust$93,784$77,750$77,750–$109,818FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

117 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.