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Making a Difference for Tomorrow Foundation at a glance

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Making a Difference for Tomorrow Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$15kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$6kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$3kHealth$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,536
Median grant
1
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,536
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$2,500
DEMETRA AND ERIC VASSILATOS FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 4 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$24k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +54%
  • CF
    CANTIGNY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +330%
  • DA
    Demetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation
    2× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue -88%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SL
    SAN LUCAS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
4
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
5
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
7
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
College of American Pathologists Foundation

Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.

Education
9
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cantigny Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Demetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $7,976 · OtherGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRECANTIGNY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherCANTIGNY FOUNDATIONST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHSAINT HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSAINT HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHSAN LUCAS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5,000 · OtherSAN LUCAS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2,536 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE+6 more: $3,100 · Other+6 moreDemetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation: $5,500 · PhilanthropyDemetra and …GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,750 · Food & NutritionCornell University: $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $200 · EducationCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $250 · Human ServicesCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $250 · Housing & ShelterDIRECT RELIEF: $200 · International
Other$38,112Philanthropy$5,500Food & Nutrition$3,750Education$2,700Human Services$250Housing & Shelter$250International$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $7,976 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANTIGNY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDemetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Making a Difference for Tomorrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Making a Difference for Tomorrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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