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GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME

GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$11k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame does

Mission

To foster amateur sports competition by recognizing present & former area athletes, coaches & others who have distinguished themselves in athletics.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Induction dinner for inductees to the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame

    $0 spent
  2. Golf classic to benefit the grand rapids public schools.

    $0 spentof which $10,000 as grants
  3. Volleyball showcase and track & field classic

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2018 Revenue 90 ($52k) Expenses 93 ($85k) Net assets 49 ($31k)2019 Revenue 117 ($68k) Expenses 103 ($94k) Net assets 7 ($4k)2020 Revenue 186 ($108k) Expenses 67 ($61k) Net assets 82 ($52k)2021 Revenue 49 ($29k) Expenses 38 ($35k) Net assets 72 ($46k)2022 Revenue 59 ($35k) Expenses 45 ($41k) Net assets 63 ($40k)2023 Revenue 74 ($43k) Expenses 59 ($54k) Net assets 46 ($29k)2024 Revenue 101 ($59k) Expenses 80 ($73k) Net assets 23 ($15k)2025 Revenue 60 ($35k) Expenses 42 ($39k) Net assets 17 ($11k)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (42)Net assets (17)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4k to $52k (+1055%).

$63k
$31k
$4k
$52k
$46k
$40k
$29k
$15k
$11k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,233 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’17
−$33k
’18
−$26k
’19
$47k
’20
−$6k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$14k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME’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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

91% of GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME?
GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,000 in grants to GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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