Michigan · Nonprofit
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,818,750 to it, the largest being DICK AND BETSY DEVOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Grand Action Foundation 20 does
Mission
To promote economic and cultural development of grand rapids, michigan
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As part of the 2.0 launch, grand action foundation has reengaged convention sports and leisure international (csl) to provide updates on initiatives and recommendations which were identified in the original destination asset study conducted four years ago. The projects identified include pending opportunities for exploration as future grand action projects which may consist of: an expansion of devos place, the construction of an outdoor amphitheater, the construction of a soccer/field sports arena, or an aerial transportation/gondola project. The research will assist grand action in developing a plan and strategies for future investment in destination assets and the economic development of grand rapids. Grand action foundation's role is in providing financial support for these studies and construction of potential future projects.as part of this process, grand action foundation will continue to work with governmental bodies, public-private partnerships, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, community leaders, and the general public in planning, promoting, developing, organizing, and overseeing the realization of civic, cultural, educational, scientific research, and…
$71,154,013 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $71,154,013.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $44M to $88M (+100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 25% · 2024 23% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kara Wood
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $2.9M.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $60k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 raised.
From the IRS filings of GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 43% · 2022 22% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Grand Action 20 · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20?
- GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,818,750 to it, the largest being DICK AND BETSY DEVOS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $10,818,750 in grants to GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20?
- DICK AND BETSY DEVOS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Grand Action Foundation 20 →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing