West Grand Neighborhood Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382360945
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- (616) 451-0150
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $247,709
- Expenses
- $285,196
- Assets
- $74,051
- Liabilities
- $11,995
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALAN POULISSE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALAN POULISSE (PRESIDENT)
- LUCAS LEVERETT (VICE PRESIDE)
- KIM MCCORMICK (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We produce programs to enhance our healthy, vital neighborhood. Annually, WGNO oversees a city-funded program with volunteers whereby neighborhood residents can bring a wide array of disposables to a line-up of dumpsters, at Richmond Park, and dispose of them. Almost anything can be discarded as long as it is non-toxic, excluding car batteries, gas-powered items, paint cans and tires. Almost 90 tons of disposables were collected at the Dumpster Day, in June 2011. Community Cleanup Every Spring we help organize a city-wide cleanup event. Last year we had over 1000 volunteers throughout the city!
What it reported doing in 2024
To increase civic engagement and leadership by reducing housing blight, improving neighborhood conditions and forming block clubs to promote awareness and safety. Designed to reduce crime and promote community wellbeing
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $82.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 58.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $167K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.