Michigan · Nonprofit
GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT
GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,950 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($900,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Grand Rapids Nehemiah Project does
Mission
Grand Rapids Nehemiah Project seeks to join in the work of rebuilding and restoring the city so all people will flourish.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Building bridges professional services creates opportunities for year round and seasonal employment for youth working with mentors and the community doing property maintenance and lawn service, construction, landscape design and installation, for residential and commercial customers.
$935,521 spent$443,957 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe center at 1530 madison acts as a physical environment for wedding's, banquet's, corporate events, while hiring employees who can work together in order to accomplish their social and community development mission. The center at 1530 seeks to create a transfmorational workplace where everyone belongs, devlops, & innovates.
$627,739 spent$706,325 earned by the program26% of program spendingGrand Rapids Nehemiah Project received grants to fund and support youth and community employment through education, vocational training, and barrier elimination.
$803,822 spent$52,104 earned by the program33% of program spendingRising grinds is a social enterprise coffee shop hiring local residents, providing a space for community relationship building around good coffee and food. Rising grinds employ's 5 people.
$41,754 spent$14,427 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,408,836.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $7.0M (+61%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 48% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Scott Mackey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $141k → $362k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEHEMIAH PROJECT’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 NEHEMIAH PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 36% · 2019 91% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 88% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
98% of GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NEHEMIAH PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 3 related entities
- Building Bridges Professional · disregarded
- Rising Grinds Cafe · disregarded
- The Center at 1530 Madison · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT?
- GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,950 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($900,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,338,950 in grants to GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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