Michigan · Nonprofit
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,592,955 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($9,022,683). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $660k
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Grand Rapids Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
Cultivating community resources to enrich educational experiences and remove barriers so every student learns, develops, and thrives. The grps foundation's mission is to remove barriers and secure essential funding for critical programs, projects, and resources, ensuring that every student in the grand rapids public schools (grps) system learns, develops, and thrives. As the primary foundation for west michigan's largest public school district, grps foundation supports nearly 14,000 students, inspiring future success through a well-rounded approach to education. Each year, we fund vital programs in sports, arts, music, and experiential learning, offering hands-on, real-world experiences that complement classroom instruction. Our support extends to providing students with essential resources, including warm clothing, school supplies, and volunteer-led initiatives like playground clean-ups. Additionally, we administer mini-grants for teachers and principals, empowering educators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grps students and educators remain at the heart of our mission, ensuring equitable access to resources that foster success inside and outside the classroom. We fund essential programs in sports, arts, music, and experiential learning, as well as critical resources for students and teachers. Each year, we review our goals and make sure our fundraising is aligned with emerging educational needs.see complete details in schedule oin 2025, we continued to support teacher mini-grants, awarding $500 each to 50 teachers for classroom enhancements that foster hands-on learning. These grants funded unique educational tools like handheld microscopes, school garden supplies, birdfeeders with cameras, owl pellets, and after-school clubs.we also addressed student essentials through the teresa weatherall neal principal's fund, which provided 19 schools with resources to support senior trips, caps and gowns, and camp experiences. Additionally, we collaborated with community partners to organizeresource drives, including a warmth drive that provided over 500 items of assorted hats, mittens, coats, boots, and scarves to ensure students could comfortably play and explore outside.
$799,236 spentof which $684,662 as grants$146,625 earned by the program79% of program spendingElementary and middle school sports for physical wellness and social-emotional health remain a vital focus of the foundation's support for grps scholars. This program provides funding for after-school sports, ensuring that all students from kindergarten to 8th grade can participate at no cost. By promoting a healthy, active lifestyle, we help students develop a lifelong passion for physical activity and teamwork.the foundation provided funding to support over 3,200 elementary and middle school students in free sports programming, covering essential costs such as uniforms, coaches, transportation, and event fees. These activities strengthen students' relationships with positive adult mentors, cultivate resilience, and instill the values of teamwork and perseverance. Through this program, the foundation helps students thrive both on and off the field, laying afoundation for holistic development and lifelong wellness.our goal is to nurture well-rounded student-athletes by fostering an athletics program that not only builds athletic skills but also supports academic success and social-emotional growth. Participation in sports has been shown to improve school performance, reduce…
$216,099 spentof which $216,099 as grants21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,015,335.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.9M to $7.2M (+47%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Stephanie Andrews
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $571k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 94% · 2019 72% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 62% · 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
38% of GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $462k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,592,955 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($9,022,683). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $13,592,955 in grants to GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- XQ INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $9,022,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 47 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