North Carolina · Private foundation
Make a Difference Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $248k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $201,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Make a Difference Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $248k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $263k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $167k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $260k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $215k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $243k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $169k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $172k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $567,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trinity Forum Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Word Tabernacle Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be Loud Sophie Foundation | $65,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Rocky Mount Academy | $39,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Morehead-Cain Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Refuge Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Flashes of Hope | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $567,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trinity Forum Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Word Tabernacle Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be Loud Sophie Foundation | $65,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Rocky Mount Academy | $39,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Morehead-Cain Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Refuge Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Flashes of Hope | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peacemakers of Rocky Mount Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greene County Interfaith Volunteers | $4,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Animal Crackers | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame Inc | $2,850 | 2 | 3% |
| Karma Box Project | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools | $2,032 | 1 | 0% |
| Beare Garden Plantation Animal Rescue | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Bard Theater Company | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heroes Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pregnancy Care Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Gate of Lenoir County | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| First United Methodist Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($745k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make a Difference Fund 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: Deleon Carter Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Make a Difference Fund
- How much does Make a Difference Fund give?
- Make a Difference Fund reported 10 grants totaling $247,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Make a Difference Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Philanthropy (7%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Make a Difference Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Educational Foundation Inc ($567k), Trinity Forum Inc ($120k), Word Tabernacle Church ($100k).
- Does Make a Difference Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make a Difference Fund 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 Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Deleon Carter Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Make a Difference Fund based?
- Make a Difference Fund is based in NC.
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