$15.0M in expenses

In addition to helping manage charitable contributions on behalf of donors, the community foundation makes strategic grants through the community's endowment and our various grantmaking programs. Through the responsive grantmaking program, we look to support high impact projects that are being implemented by organizations with the appropriate capacity to successfully deliver on project goals. Through the proactive grantmaking program, we have focused on three board-identified priorities: increasing access to and availability of mental health services, leveraging out of school time to mitigate the education opportunity gap, and increasing the consistency of healthy parent or caring adult relationships in kids' lives. In addition to our primary grantmaking, some of the other key projects we have supported in the past year include: holland/zeeland promise scholarship, strengthening the nonprofit sector programming, and program related investments.