Texas · Private foundation
Make It Matter 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.
- $218k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Make It Matter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 16 | $215k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $394k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $273k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $304k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $394k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conscious Capitalism Inc | $402,538 | 5 | 7% |
| Northwest Bible Church | $286,734 | 5 | n/a |
| Parish Episcopal School | $221,569 | 5 | 0% |
| Family First Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Urban Food Initiative Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $32,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United with Love Outreach Ministry | $19,074 | 3 | 10% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make It Matter 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Make It Matter Foundation
- How much does Make It Matter Foundation give?
- Make It Matter Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $217,677 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Make It Matter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (33%), Religion (20%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Make It Matter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Conscious Capitalism Inc ($403k), Northwest Bible Church ($287k), Parish Episcopal School ($222k).
- Does Make It Matter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make It Matter 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 Matter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation.
- Where is Make It Matter Foundation based?
- Make It Matter Foundation is based in TX.
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