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The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$40k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$9k67%
FY20246$10k50%
FY20235$10k20%
FY20225$14k40%
FY20213$8k0%
FY20208$5k50%
FY201911$14k73%
FY201810$10k60%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$23kHealth$22kYouth Development$11kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$6kMembership Benefit$6kScience & Tech$5kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leg Up Farm Inc$12,50050%
Good Karma Garage$10,00027%
The Jared Box Project$7,00080%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$7,0002n/a
Lancaster Science Center$5,00010%
Downtown Daily Bread$5,0001n/a
Tomtod Ideas Inc$5,00011%
Casa Board Volunteer Association In$3,50011%
North Museum Corporation$3,50010%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$3,00050%
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All grantees of The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leg Up Farm Inc$12,50050%
Good Karma Garage$10,00027%
The Jared Box Project$7,00080%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$7,0002n/a
Lancaster Science Center$5,00010%
Downtown Daily Bread$5,0001n/a
Tomtod Ideas Inc$5,00011%
Casa Board Volunteer Association In$3,50011%
North Museum Corporation$3,50010%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$3,00050%
Wish for Wheels Inc$2,00040%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$2,00030%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc$1,00010%
Crossroads Community Closet$1,0001n/a
The Pantry Plus More Inc$50010%
Lycoming Community Care Inc$50010%
Domestic Violence Project Inc$50010%
Animal Friends Inc$50010%
Greater Valley Young Men's Christian Association$50010%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$50010%
Jeff Musser Foundation$50010%
Mountaineer Food Bank Inc$50010%
Keystone Human Services$50010%
Life Choice Inc$5001n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeg Up Farm Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGood Karma Garage: $10,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe Jared Box Project: $7,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLancaster Science Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTomtod Ideas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCasa Board Volunteer Association In: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Museum Corporation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetValley Youth House Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pantry Plus More Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLycoming Community Care Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Valley Young Men's Christian Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJeff Musser Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountaineer Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone Human Services: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Willis and Elsie Shenk FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation

How much does The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation give?
The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (23%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leg Up Farm Inc ($13k), Good Karma Garage ($10k), The Jared Box Project ($7k).
Does The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark 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 The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation, Trustmark Foundation, Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation.
Where is The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation based?
The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation is based in PA.

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 36 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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