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The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc

An organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities. Women and children's issues are at the forefront of the efforts to build a better community that values education, self worth, and diversity.

$17k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$725k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$17k67%
FY20205$25k100%
FY20192$60k100%
FY20181$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Public Benefit$50kCommunity Improvement$20kFood & Nutrition$14kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kHealth$3kEducation$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Grand Rapids$50,0001n/a
Kids' Food Basket Inc$13,70020%
YWCA West Central Michigan$10,00010%
Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth Inc$10,00011%
Mel Trotter Ministries$10,00010%
Grand Rapids Public Schools Foundation$2,5001n/a
Girls on the Run West Michigan$2,5001n/a
Cherry Street Services Inc$2,50010%
Gilda's Club Grand Rapids$25010%
The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc$20020%
Grand Valley State University$601n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Heart of West Michigan United WayMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc

How much does The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc give?
The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc reported 6 grants totaling $16,610 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (41%), Community Improvement (16%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: City of Grand Rapids ($50k), Kids' Food Basket Inc ($14k), YWCA West Central Michigan ($10k).
Does The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heart of West Michigan United Way, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation.
Where is The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc based?
The Junior League of Grand Rapids Michigan Inc 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 12 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 2021, released 2021. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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