News

Updates and Insights from the Community Foundation

Featured Posts

  • 2024-2025 Annual Report

    Posted on November 19, 2025

    2024-2025 Annual Report
    In its last fiscal year, Grand Rapids Community Foundation awarded $24,180,887 in grants to nonprofit partners and scholarships to students. The organization's total assets were stewarded to $486,075,237. Other results and stories from partners are [...]
  • Partners in Community, Winter 2026

    Posted on March 05, 2026

    Partners in Community, Winter 2026
    In our new issue of PARTNERS in community, a magazine by Grand Rapids Community Foundation, we lift up the strength, stability and future focus that so many of our community’s philanthropists embody. We celebrate the [...]
All Posts
  • Creating Your Will of Wisdom

    Posted on April 14, 2017

    Creating Your Will of Wisdom
    We've been focusing a lot on planned giving and wills in the last month, but beyond the legal documents, there is another document you might consider completing as part of your estate plan. An ethical [...]

  • Posted on April 04, 2017

    Staycationing? Plan for Summer Camp Now!
    If you're home this week with the kids, you might be getting a little anxious about summer break and how to make those months away from school productive. There's always summer camp! If you've thought [...]
  • A Planned Gift Mystery Solved

    Posted on April 02, 2017

    A Planned Gift Mystery Solved
    From time to time, we receive unexpected bequests from kind strangers. A few years ago, Grand Rapids Community Foundation was named beneficiary of a life insurance policy held by Joy Brown Baker. It was a [...]

  • Posted on October 04, 2013

    Kate Wolters Honored
    Business leader, philanthropist, advocate, mentor, volunteer Kate Wolters has gathered many feathers in her cap during her decades of service to West Michigan. This month, Grand Rapids Community Foundation has added another. Wolters has become [...]

  • Posted on November 21, 2008

    Community Foundation Dedicates Its New Home
    On November 21, 2008, Grand Rapids Community Foundation dedicated its new home. With 125 donors, Trustees, staff and the media in attendance, Mayor George Heartwell dedicated the building and Rabbi Al Lewis gave it a [...]

  • Posted on January 26, 2005

    Community Foundation Names Development VP
    The Grand Rapids Community Foundation announces that Marilyn Zack has been promoted to Vice President for Development. She has been with the Community Foundation since 2001 and previously served as the Foundation’s Director of Planned [...]