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West Michigan Friendship Center

RegisteredEIN 82-0773296Grand Rapids, MIGrant-making and general purposes
Income$177k2023-12
Spending$153ksame year
Spent / received94%5-year average
Size in its cause55th pctGrant-making and general purposes
Exempt since2017Publicly supported organisat
Employees3latest return

Analysis

West Michigan Friendship Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, West Michigan Friendship Center reported income of $177k and spending of $153k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $145k to $177k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, West Michigan Friendship Center sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 50th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quilters Unlimited ($177k), Collision Industry Foundation Inc ($177k) and Or Lezion Inc ($177k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $62k. At year end it held assets of $90k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $90k. It reported 3 employees.

Income and spending

$0$46k$93k$139k$185k2019 Income: $144,7972019 Spending: $152,81420192020 Income: $155,9292020 Spending: $150,42020202021 Income: $161,1872021 Spending: $148,28820212022 Income: $185,1742022 Spending: $171,17120222023 Income: $176,8642023 Spending: $153,3432023
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Contributions & grants 93%
  • Other 7.1%

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CharityLocationIncome
Quilters UnlimitedMerrifield$177k
Collision Industry Foundation IncMechanicsvlle$177k
Or Lezion IncBrooklyn$177k
United Through HopeCorinth$177k