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  • 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 [...]
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  • Helping Make Grand Rapids Good with Local First

    Posted on July 20, 2017

    Helping Make Grand Rapids Good with Local First
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees recently approved a grant of $250,000 to Local First Educational Foundation for its “Good for Grand Rapids” campaign. The goal of the grant is to increase the number [...]
  • Let's Talk About Our North Star

    Posted on July 11, 2017

    Let's Talk About Our North Star
    Finding the North Star can be challenging. Gazing at the night sky from the front porch of my home, I spot the Big Dipper. I trace an imaginary line from the Big Dipper’s two edge [...]

  • Posted on June 27, 2017

    We're Looking for Youth Grant Committee Members!
    The Youth Grant Committee (YGC) of Grand Rapids Community Foundation is seeking members for the upcoming school year. Students from any public, private or homeschool in Kent County are welcome to apply. During the school [...]

  • Posted on June 26, 2017

    Over $1M in Scholarships for Students
    In another record-breaking year for helping students with college, Grand Rapids Community Foundation Trustees approved $1.2 million in scholarships for 2017. The scholarships for high school seniors, college students and grad students went to 677 [...]
  • 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 [...]