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Michigan · Private foundation

Make the World Better Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$209k
Granted FY2017
6
Grants FY2017
6
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$9,809
Largest grant, FY2017
$187,126
States reached, FY2017
2
Total assets, FY2017
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Reach Youth Programs$1,00010%
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance$8510%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.

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About Make the World Better Foundation Inc

How much does Make the World Better Foundation Inc give?
Make the World Better Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $209,481 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Make the World Better Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (99%), Youth Development (0%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Make the World Better Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Reach Youth Programs ($1k), Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance ($85).
Does Make the World Better Foundation Inc 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.
Where is Make the World Better Foundation Inc based?
Make the World Better Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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