Delaware · Private foundation
Making Life Better 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.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Making Life Better Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $165k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $137k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $95k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation Inc | $311,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Center for Applied Learning & | $55,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Won by One to Jamaica | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ghana Make a Difference | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| StableStrides | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Partners in Housing Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University Schools | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of North Alabama Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tri-Lakes Cares | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Making Life Better 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: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Making Life Better Foundation
- How much does Making Life Better Foundation give?
- Making Life Better Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Making Life Better Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Making Life Better Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation Inc ($311k), The Center for Applied Learning & ($55k), Won by One to Jamaica ($35k).
- Does Making Life Better Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Making Life Better 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 Making Life Better Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pikes Peak Community Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Making Life Better Foundation based?
- Making Life Better Foundation is based in DE.
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