· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $96,000 |
| WON BY ONE TO JAMAICA | $24,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HOUSING INC A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORP | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS | $7,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE ED | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Making Life Better Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $311k · revenue +78%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR APPLIED LEARNING &4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +62%
- WBWON BY ONE TO JAMAICA2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GMGhana Make a Differencegraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +46%
- TCTRI-LAKES CARESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +93%
- MBM Bledsoeone 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.
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.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.
Homes 4 Homes brings safe housing to people in developing countries. We empower local leaders and construction teams to build homes for at risk members of their own communities. Safe and secure housing positively impacts multiple…
Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.
We provide homes, a healthy diet, medical treatment, quality education, and counseling for orphaned abused and neglected children in Tanzania, East Africa. Sonshine works directly with Child Welfare Services of Tanzania. CWS provides…
Acres of Diamonds offfers moms and their children a community-centered, non-traditional approach to transitional housing. our mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by providing holistic, long-term solutions that empower families to…
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…
Community Action Services and Food Bank works to stabilize families and then rebuild their lives. We help meet their basic needs (food, shelter, housing) while providing the long-term solutions needed to rebuild their financial and social…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
HCP, in partnership with other non-profits, community organizations, volunteers and businesses, provides education, clean water, latrines, and medical services to enhance self-sufficiency, healthy living and dignity within the La Paz…
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LEARNING & ↗
- Who funds WON BY ONE TO JAMAICA ↗
- Who funds Ghana Make a Difference ↗
- Who funds StableStrides ↗
- Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds University Schools ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Making Life Better Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Making Life Better Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Making Life Better’s filings →