Mississippi · 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.
- $159k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $481k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Make a Difference Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 8 | $159k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $106k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $167k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $184k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $300k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $438k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $760k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands Presbyterian Church | $721,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Belhaven University | $505,000 | 3 | 1% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mississippi Center for Public Policy | $80,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Young Life | $47,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Wilson Research Foundation | $42,300 | 4 | 1% |
| Latino Action Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Redeemers School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christ Covenant School LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Century Club Charities Inc | $18,550 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make a Difference Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Make a Difference Foundation
- How much does Make a Difference Foundation give?
- Make a Difference Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Make a Difference Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Health (28%), Education (20%).
- Who are Make a Difference Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Highlands Presbyterian Church ($721k), Belhaven University ($505k), First Presbyterian Church ($100k).
- Does Make a Difference Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make a Difference Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Make a Difference Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee, Ergon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Make a Difference Foundation based?
- Make a Difference Foundation is based in MS.
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