· Private foundation
Make a Difference Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Make a Difference Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Make a Difference Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $91k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k39 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMNER'S ASSOC | $11,000 |
| JAFCO | $5,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $5,000 |
| THE WOODLANDS | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA OF PALM BEACH CO INC | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH TIKVAH | $4,000 |
| THE WELLINGTON SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| THE WOODLANDS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES OF | $3,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| JAFCO | $3,000 |
| AMERICRES | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2019, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWELLINGTON SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +45%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +40%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
- COColation of Indenpendent Living Optionsone grant, 2018 · $2k
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist hospital of miami is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
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 Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Frenchmans Reserve Charitable Foundation Inc · John E & Nellie J Bastien Memorial Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Extraordinary Charities Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Make a Difference Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make a Difference Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Grandmas Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Center for Child Counseling Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
- Mae Volen Senior Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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