Corewell Health
Grand Rapids, MI · EIN 38-3382353. Reported 81 grants totalling $22.7M to 67 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Corewell Health, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E21) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 67 distinct organizations, with 87% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $6,250 and the largest $13.2M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $95,996 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Valley State University | Allendale, MI | $19.6M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation | Detroit, MI | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grand Rapids Public Schools | Grand Rapids, MI | $179,821 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $175,213 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Our Mental Health Collective | Grand Rapids, MI | $163,203 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| STEM Greenhouse Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ama International Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $95,996 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Tri Cities | Grand Haven, MI | $90,561 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Food Clubs | Grand Rapids, MI | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology | Grand Rapids, MI | $89,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inforum | Southfield, MI | $84,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Royal Oak Civic Foundation | Royal Oak, MI | $82,623 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Strategic Workforce Solutions | Grand Rapids, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | Detroit, MI | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Exalta Health | Grand Rapids, MI | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Realism Is Loyalty | Grand Rapids, MI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Core Collective | Grand Rapids, MI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| FITKIDS360 | Grand Rapids, MI | $40,342 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids Nonprofit Housing Corporation | Grand Rapids, MI | $38,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Puertas Abiertas | Grand Rapids, MI | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids, MI | $35,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African American Health Institute | Grand Rapids, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Council for Behavioral Health | Washington, DC | $33,292 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catherines Health Center | Grand Rapids, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community House Foundation | Birmingham, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Glimpse of Africa | Grand Rapids, MI | $29,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Promise of Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak, MI | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Outreach Center | Grand Rapids, MI | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance | Holland, MI | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern Michigan Health Consortium | Charlevoix, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society of Black Academic Surgeons Inc | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce | Grand Rapids, MI | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cherry Street Services Foundation | Grand Rapids, MI | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Literacy Center of West Michigan | Grand Rapids, MI | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hoap Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Right Place Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mid-Michigan District Health Department | Stanton, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | Southfield, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi | Fulton, MI | $10,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Association of Fundraising Professionals | Oxford, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Citizens Research Council of Michigan Inc | Livonia, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Childrens Fund | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Step-Western Wayne County Project on Domestic Assault | Plymouth, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grosse Pointe Chamber Foundation | Grosse Pt Frm, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Forum for Black Public Administrators Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Day Foundation for Families | Rochester, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Heights Christian Community Development Association | St Joseph, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oakland University | Rochester, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teen Street Skills | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Greater Michigan Chapter of the National Black Mba Association | Kentwood, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Michigan Womens Foundation | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Shul | W Bloomfield, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Michigan Asian American Association Inc | Grand Rapids Mi Grr, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American College of Healthcare Executives | Beverly Hills, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Public Theatre | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand Rapids Asian-Pacific Festival | Grand Rapids, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Michigan Institute of Urology Mens Health Foundation | Rochester, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nfx | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calvin University | Grand Rapids, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Find Your Anchor | Signal Hill, CA | $6,879 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helping Hands | Howard City, MI | $6,514 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leahs Pantry Inc | San Francisco, CA | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 67 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Grand Rapids Public Schools
TO SUPPORT SCHOOL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 of 67 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19 | $14.2M | $11,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $3,879,919 | $11,250 |
| 2024 | 30 | $4,546,255 | $34,646 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Corewell Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 Corewell Dr Nw Attn Tax, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503.
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