Utah · Private foundation
Make It Happen Foundation
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.
- $200k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $86,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Make It Happen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 29 | $200k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $331k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $250k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $351k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $131k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $105k | 94% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $90k | 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | $372,557 | 5 | n/a |
| Help a Friend Foundation | $130,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Orange Couch Foundation | $63,250 | 6 | 5% |
| Brigham Young University | $27,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Todays the Day Foundation | $27,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Community of Hope International Inc | $23,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Gofundmeorg | $20,948 | 5 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University-Idaho | $14,848 | 3 | n/a |
| Moca Ct Inc | $13,557 | 3 | 0% |
| Puregive | $13,460 | 3 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($717k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Make It Happen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Make It Happen Foundation
- How much does Make It Happen Foundation give?
- Make It Happen Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $200,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Make It Happen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Education (23%), Health (14%).
- Who are Make It Happen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($373k), Help a Friend Foundation ($130k), Orange Couch Foundation ($63k).
- Does Make It Happen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make It 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 It Happen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University Impact, The Community Foundation of Utah, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is Make It Happen Foundation based?
- Make It Happen Foundation is based in UT.
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