· Private foundation
Make a Difference Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUND | $100,000 |
| LATINO ACTION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST DOMINIC HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDAT | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE URBAN MS 18 | $2,500 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +18%
- TWTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +9%
- TRTHE REDEEMERS SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TUTHE UMMC FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SDST DOMINIC HEALTH SERV FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- LALATINO ACTION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Health care foundation of north mississippi is operated exclusively for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds (for medical, scientific, educational and charitable purposes), to assist hospital and non-profit…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
North mississippi medical clinics, inc. (clinics) owns and operates 34 primary care and internal medicine clinics, all primarily within north mississippi and northwest alabama. clinics is part of the north mississippi health services…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
North mississippi medical center (nmmc) is a 650-bed regional referral center in tupelo, ms. nmmc serves more than 700,000 people in 24 counties in north mississippi, northwest alabama and portions of tennessee. nmmc is the largest…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
In partnership with donors and volunteers, le bonheur children's hospital foundation promotes philanthropic investment to support le bonheur children's hospital's mission of providing high qualitypatient care, research and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is Latino Action Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATINO ACTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE WILL GO ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Feild Co-Operative Association · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · The Pruet Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Telos Foundation Inc · Walker Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Make a Difference Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.