· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHEEMAH HOSPITAL | $86,300 |
| ST ELIZABETH ACADEMY | $31,900 |
| TODAY'S THE DAY FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,239 |
| ORANGE COUCH FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| TAIFA SACCO SOCIETY | $6,680 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO | $6,078 |
| MOCA WESTPORT | $5,517 |
| MIDVALE FAMILY DENTISTRY | $3,505 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,990 |
| CAMBODIAN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,619 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,575 |
| ANDES EDUCATION FUND | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 64% of grant dollars ($933k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 36% that went abroad ($526k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 36% of all-years giving ($526k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCORANGE COUCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +302%
- TTTODAYS THE DAY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +975%
- GGOFUNDMEORG5× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +719%
Funded once
- LCLDS CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $60k
- PMPHH MORTGAGE SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Islamic relief usa provides relief and development in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and works to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world.
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
The mission of the go fund is to provide vulnerable women and children in africa with the skills, resources and opportunities they need to lift themselves permanently out of poverty.
Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 106 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Make It Happen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make It Happen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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