New York · Private foundation
Make Great Things Happen 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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $130k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Make Great Things Happen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 38 | $34k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $38k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $37k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $37k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $37k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 518 Elevated Inc | $46,200 | 6 | 3% |
| Ithaca College | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $18,590 | 6 | 0% |
| Northeastern Woodworkers Association Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 4% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rpm Foundation | $5,100 | 6 | 1% |
| The Shaker Heritage Society | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Berkshire Woodworkers Guild | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vision to Learn | $4,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Captain Community Human Services Inc | $4,450 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make Great Things Happen 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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Review Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Make Great Things Happen Foundation with peer funders
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About Make Great Things Happen Foundation
- How much does Make Great Things Happen Foundation give?
- Make Great Things Happen Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $35,067 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Make Great Things Happen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Arts & Culture (9%), Health (6%).
- Who are Make Great Things Happen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: 518 Elevated Inc ($46k), Ithaca College ($30k), Donorschooseorg ($19k).
- Does Make Great Things Happen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make Great Things Happen 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 Great Things Happen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Make Great Things Happen Foundation based?
- Make Great Things Happen Foundation is based in NY.
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