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The MakeSense Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2022
24
Grants FY2022
15
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Human Services$687kHealth$403kReligion$317kEducation$277kPhilanthropy$188kEmployment$86kYouth Development$84kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2022 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k20 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Child Protection Center$15,000
Breast Cancer Coalition$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
RMHC Central Ohio$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Embrace Grace$5,000
Weld Women2Women$5,000
Marlon Marcs Foundation$5,000
Doorways for Women Familes$5,000
Girls Inc of Orange County$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
The Women's Center$5,000
Blackburn Center$5,000
Arkansas Crisis Center$5,000
Meadow Rose Society$4,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $23k → 9%Blackburn Center: $5k → 10%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3k → 8%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $3k → 5%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 17%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $385 → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $25k → 16%RISE: $20k → 19%BLAZE OF HOPE: $3k → 9%ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLA'S COUNTY: $3k → 12%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $20k → 18%COYOTE HILL: $225 → 11%FAYETTE COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3k → 6%WOODLANDS SERVING CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 10%FREE2LUV: $10k → 9%THE CARING PLACE: $3k → 15%BLACKBURN CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $3k → 10%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $3k → 19%BAY AREA TURNING POINT: $3k → 16%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $450 → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $20k → 16%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $9k → 18%ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS: $225 → 10%FAYETTE COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $5k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $20k → 13%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $5k → 18%Embrace Grace: $5k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8k → 13%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $3k → 18%ONE STEP MINISTRY: $5k → 10%CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%The Spring Shelter: $3k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OKLAHOMA CITY: $225 → 16%WISEPLACE: $10k → 10%WISEPLACE: $149 → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%LAURAS HOUSE: $450 → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $113 → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $6k → 15%STL234 Outreach: $4k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $3k → 15%ELI HOME: $338 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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OR
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MO
KY
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VA
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AR
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HI
OK
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GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$774k · 27 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
283

Total granted

$774k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+44%

Still filing today

67%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CC
    CARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $60k · revenue +20%
  • DF
    Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +193%
  • SC
    SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • MD
    MSF DONATIONS VARIOUS LOCATIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • KS
    KIDS SHOULDNT HAVE CANCER FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2017 · $32k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

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2
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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3
The Center for Women and Children in Crisis

Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Health
4
Russell House Response to Domestic

Provide compassionate services to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence. we provide emergency shelter, advocacy, counseling, support groups, transporation and a 24/7 crisis line.

Human Services
5
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter

Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
7
Crisis Care Line

Domestic violence victim services

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8
Domestic Violence Project

The mission of SafeHouse Center is to empower survivors of both sexual and intimate partner violence by providing advocacy, support, and promoting social change within our community.

Human Services
9
Hope Crisis Center

Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Health
10
My Sisters House Inc

Services for abused women & their children

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11
Womanhaven a Center for Family Solutions

Our mission is to promote and provide a comprehensive response to domestic violence,stalking_and human trafficing through community outreach & education, prevention,intervention, client support services and safety and shelter services

Human Services
12
Womens Aid in Crisis Inc

Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty House of Albany Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Gate International. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Developmental Disabilities …Addiction Recovery Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/126
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,439

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.

04the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 333 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/120
Grantees still filing
93/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAEIR — $289,881 · OtherNAEIRRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa — $100,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities of TulsaCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC — $60,160 · Other+135 more — $1,292,321 · Other+135 moreDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc — $55,225 · Human ServicesDress for Succe…SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC — $36,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE CRISI…LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $28,285 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CENT…Blackfem Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesBlackfem IncPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HO…WOMEN'S SHELTER INC — $22,862 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S SHELTER…Casa de la Bondad Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesCasa de la Bond…RISE CORP — $20,000 · Human ServicesRISE CORPLAURA'S HOUSE — $15,563 · Human Services+22 more — $91,849 · Human Services+22 moreSammys Superheroes Foundation — $37,000 · HealthSammys Su…CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $32,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE GOOD …American Heart Association Inc — $16,000 · HealthAmerican …LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $15,000 · HealthLIVING BE…NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC — $11,000 · HealthOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC — $10,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+9 more — $35,510 · Health+9 moreREMERGE INC — $31,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH SERVICES OF CREEK COUNTY INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalPathways for Change Inc — $2,500 · Crime & LegalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · InternationalMEDICAL MISSIONS OUTREACH INC — $14,490 · InternationalPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · InternationalPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $21,758 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARLON AND MARCUS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHOW INC — $20,000 · EmploymentOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Employment
Other$1,742,362Human Services$340,284Health$206,510Crime & Legal$73,500International$49,490Youth Development$36,758Employment$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa — $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC — $60,160 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc — $55,225 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetSammys Superheroes Foundation — $37,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC — $36,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREMERGE INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $28,285 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBlackfem Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER INC — $22,862 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $21,758 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHOW INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $15,563 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEDICAL MISSIONS OUTREACH INC — $14,490 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWISEPLACE — $10,149 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE2LUV INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBristow Social Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES — $8,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLACKBURN CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY — $5,225 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Women's Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Mary Kay Ash Foundati…The Anne and Henry Za…Sarkeys FoundationTulsa Community Found…The Hardesty Family F…Edward & Helen Bartle…Tulsa Area United WayThe Gelvin FoundationThe Kerr Foundation I…Community Food Bank o…Grace & Franklin Bern…Oneok Foundation Inc
Mary Kay Ash FoundationTX37× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Kay Ash Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Edward & Helen Bartlett Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · The Gelvin Foundation · The Kerr Foundation Inc · Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Oneok Foundation 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 The MakeSense Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Alianza Dv Services Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Bridging Freedom Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
  • Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
  • The Sexual Assaultspouse Abuse Resource Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 333 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines