· Public charity
Making Change
MAKING CHANGE, formally known as ficah, was incorporated on july 23, 1985, for the purpose of soliciting contributions from corporate and private sources within the retail industry to fund self-help community development projects throughout the united states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 202 grants below total $3,973,481 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,114,204 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,723 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k79 grants · $521k
- $10k–50k105 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $254,204 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $142,264 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $125,196 |
| LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK | $76,359 |
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA | $75,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA OF TAMPA BAY | $75,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA | $75,000 |
| TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC | $75,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $69,540 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $64,010 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST | $60,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $60,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HUNTSVILLE | $53,852 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA | $53,852 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Making Change’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
182 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2017–2019 · $843k · revenue +74%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $675k · revenue +107%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC3× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +2%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.
Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
To distribute surplus food and nonfood products.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Miami valley meals' chefs transform bulk donated foods into hearty meals for those experiencing food insecurity. meals are distributed through a network of nonprofits in the miami valley. our professional culinary team efficiently elevates…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors and the most unlike its peers is Oconee Area Resource Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 176 of the 207 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Place of Forsyth County Inc ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMACOL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING IN HIS NAME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HERE'S HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Family Resources ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc · The Society of St Andrew Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Making Change funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Human Services Network Inc Meals On Wheels South Florida — 48% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc — 22% of income from government
- Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) — 21% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Broward Childrens Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Here's Help Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heartland Food Reservoir Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lauren's Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for Life Network Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kids in Distress Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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