· Public charity
Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation
To provide programming and funding that encourages free enterprise, enhances the quality of life in the greater Grand Rapids area, or otherwise serves a charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purpose.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $318,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,419,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,101,626 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k24 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Field & Fire cafe | $10,000 |
| Bottega Salon | $10,000 |
| DDR Restaurant Group LLC | $10,000 |
| EA Restaurant Acquisition LLC | $10,000 |
| Simply a Loving Touch Homecare | $10,000 |
| Roam by San Chez | $10,000 |
| Euro Bistro | $10,000 |
| Grand Rapids Gymnastics | $10,000 |
| Littlebird | $10,000 |
| Chase Creative | $10,000 |
| 40 Acres Lifesyles dba Forty Acres Soul Kitchen | $10,000 |
| Nye Uniform | $10,000 |
| Flirt Fitness Studio | $10,000 |
| Chelsea Marketig dba Bob's Bar | $10,000 |
| Alebird Taphouse and Brewery | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2020.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2020–2020, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.