How much does Make the Connection give?

Make the Connection reported 5 itemized grants totaling $369,607, out of $391,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does Make the Connection fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (69%), Health (16%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Make the Connection's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Sergio and Angela Garcia Foundation ($610k), Muny Conservancy ($287k), Dell Children's Foundation ($250k).

Does Make the Connection fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Make the Connection?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Where is Make the Connection based?

Make the Connection is based in TX.

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Texas · Public charity

Make the Connection

To operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific or literary purposes by engaging directly in support of such purposes or by making distributions to other organizations for use in such purposes.

$391k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 5
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 67%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $370k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $12,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $185,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 3; FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $5k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Make the Connection funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	5	$370k	80%
FY2023	3	$512k	67%
FY2022	3	$690k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$250kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$13kCrime & Legal$12kPhilanthropy$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Sergio and Angela Garcia Foundation	$610,275	2	24%
Muny Conservancy	$287,000	2	18%
Dell Children's Foundation	$250,000	1	1%
Foster Village Inc	$200,000	1	12%
Texas One Fund Inc	$152,940	1	1%
American Junior Golf Association Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Neighbor to Neighbor Ministries	$12,500	1	1%
Center for Child Protection	$11,667	1	0%
Candid	$7,500	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make the Connection supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Make the Connection

How much does Make the Connection give?: Make the Connection reported 5 itemized grants totaling $369,607, out of $391,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Make the Connection fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (69%), Health (16%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Make the Connection's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Sergio and Angela Garcia Foundation ($610k), Muny Conservancy ($287k), Dell Children's Foundation ($250k).
Does Make the Connection fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Make the Connection?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Make the Connection based?: Make the Connection is based in TX.