Sunshine State Page 37
by Sarah Gerard
* In 2016, Forbes estimated Rich DeVos’s net worth to be $4.8 billion.71
* DeVos and Van Andel’s first acquisition of property was the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in 1979.
* DeVos has made it his life’s mission to reunite the Reformed Church in America with the Christian Reformed Church in North America, from which it split in the 1850s, dividing his grandparents.
* In 2013, the family donated almost $1.4 million to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.