Michigan · Nonprofit
GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,392 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $753k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $974k
What Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives does
Mission
Organizations primary exempt purpose: to collect, preserve and honor the rich historydocumented by the accomplishments and stories of west michigan africian americans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Achievements: History Projects: Tribute to Cleo Cross banquet and awards ; Never to be Erased Bus tour to South Carolina; Million Man March Celebration photo exhibition; Rosa Parks tribute; archives exhibit; Local Activists exhibit memorabilia and photographs
$115,887 spent43% of program spendingAchievements: Community Activities: Third Ward Legacy Tour; digital kiosks displays ; Hall of Fame salute to Jess Elster; Community Historians Workshops; Grand Rapids 175 exhibit banners display; Kids Kwanzaa interactive learning; Moving Celebration at new location.
$97,124 spent36% of program spendingAchievements: Art and Culture: Artprize - Last Days and Time artists Carla Harden ,Isabella Picardi, Mike Farrell, Maya James art exhibit. Storytelling with Grandma Lo live storytelling to young people; Carol Johnson art exhibit.
$55,743 spent21% of program spendingFeatured exbihits including Never to be Erased Tour, 50 years of Hip Hop exhibit, Negro League Baseball exhibit and the Anniversary of the Civil Rights Bill.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $268,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $498k to $975k (+96%).
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.
100% of GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
George Bayard
Executive director
Board chair
Victor Holt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $80k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES’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 RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
50% of GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
93% of GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $89k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES?
- GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,392 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,185,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,300,392 in grants to GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES?
- GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing