Michigan · Nonprofit
Western Michigan Genealogical Society
Western Michigan Genealogical Society (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $91
- Net assets
- $245k
What Western Michigan Genealogical Society does
Programs
Members and sharing organizations get quarterly publication telling of family history techniques to access records places to find records Benefits 375
$5,927 spentAn annual seminar on family history is led by a nationally known speaker Sessions include topics of inspiration techniques resources Benefits 60
$4,314 spentWMGS shares cost of library editions of Ancestry and Fold3 with Grand Rapids Public Library Family History Center Benefits all users at library
$4,042 spentPublic meetings feature genealogy speakers and programs 10 times per year Benefits 30 to 50 average per meeting
$1,635 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $26 → $19.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Western Michigan Genealogical Society’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Western Michigan Genealogical Society'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Western Michigan Genealogical Society: 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 Western Michigan Genealogical Society?
- Western Michigan Genealogical Society (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Western Michigan Genealogical Society have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $91 in grants to Western Michigan Genealogical Society, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western Michigan Genealogical Society?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western Michigan Genealogical Society 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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