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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2020
39
Itemized grants FY2020
39
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$318k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$2.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Littlebird$10,0001n/a
Euro Bistro$10,0001n/a
DDR Restaurant Group LLC$10,0001n/a
40 Acres Lifestyles$10,0001n/a
Simply a Loving Touch Homecare$10,0001n/a
Grand Rapids Gymnastics$10,0001n/a
Flirt Fitness Studio$10,0001n/a
Nye Uniform$10,0001n/a
Chase Creative$10,0001n/a
Ea Restaurant Acquisition LLC$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Littlebird$10,0001n/a
Euro Bistro$10,0001n/a
DDR Restaurant Group LLC$10,0001n/a
40 Acres Lifestyles$10,0001n/a
Simply a Loving Touch Homecare$10,0001n/a
Grand Rapids Gymnastics$10,0001n/a
Flirt Fitness Studio$10,0001n/a
Nye Uniform$10,0001n/a
Chase Creative$10,0001n/a
Ea Restaurant Acquisition LLC$10,0001n/a
Bottega Salon$10,0001n/a
Field & Fire cafe$10,0001n/a
Chelsea Marketing$10,0001n/a
Roam by San Chez LLC$10,0001n/a
Alebird Taphouse and Brewery$10,0001n/a
Berry Organic Acai LLC$7,0001n/a
Jaku Sushi and Grill$7,0001n/a
Mason Rock Contracting LLC$7,0001n/a
The Firesian Gastrob Pub$7,0001n/a
EMF Logistics$7,0001n/a
Intaglio$7,0001n/a
Jam'n Bean LLC$7,0001n/a
Emonae Korean Restaurant$7,0001n/a
MooMoo LLC$7,0001n/a
Cf Group LLC$7,0001n/a
AAQUIST LLC dba Fusion Salon$7,0001n/a
Urban Massage$7,0001n/a
Renewal Skin Spa$7,0001n/a
Gymco$7,0001n/a
Uncle Cheetahs Soup Shop$7,0001n/a
West MI Window Washing$7,0001n/a
J Bradley Productions LLC dba Voyage Pictures$7,0001n/a
Fleet Quest Logistics$7,0001n/a
Coldbreak Brewing$7,0001n/a
Peppermill Cafe Inc$7,0001n/a
Cinco De Mayo$7,0001n/a
Array of Engineers$7,0001n/a
Good Samaritans Medical Transport$7,0001n/a
Metro Engineering of Grand Rapids$7,0001n/a

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation

How much does Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation give?
Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $318,000, out of $1,419,626 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (23%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Littlebird ($10k), Euro Bistro ($10k), DDR Restaurant Group LLC ($10k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Right Place Inc.
Where is Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation based?
Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $47k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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