Texas · Public charity
Be the Difference Foundation
To increase the survival rate of women battling ovarian cancer and to provide hope for a cure.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $219k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Be the Difference Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $210k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $230k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $230k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $195k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $193k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $271k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Crowley Medical Research Center | $608,640 | 8 | 1% |
| Utmd Anderson | $456,575 | 9 | n/a |
| The Clearity Foundation | $360,845 | 7 | 8% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $170,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa | $154,100 | 6 | n/a |
| Lazarex Cancer Foundation | $134,455 | 6 | 1% |
| Prisma Health-Upstate | $55,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Judith Liebenthal Robinson Ovarian Cancer Foundation | $23,785 | 2 | 8% |
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Be the Difference Foundation
- How much does Be the Difference Foundation give?
- Be the Difference Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Be the Difference Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Be the Difference Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mary Crowley Medical Research Center ($609k), Utmd Anderson ($457k), The Clearity Foundation ($361k).
- Does Be the Difference Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Be the Difference Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Be the Difference Foundation based?
- Be the Difference Foundation is based in TX.
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