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The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD$5,000
JARED BOX PROJECT$3,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CLOSET$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $1k → 11%WISH FOR WHEELS: $500 → 8%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $5k → 12%WISH FOR WHEELS: $500 → 8%WISH FOR WHEELS: $500 → 8%GOOD KARMA GARAGE: $7k → 12%WISH FOR WHEELS: $500 → 8%GOOD KARMA GARAGE: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 10 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$47k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+22%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LU
    LEG UP FARM INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +62%
  • GK
    GOOD KARMA GARAGE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +91%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    5× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • LS
    LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -29%
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    INDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
3
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc

The mission of the second harvest food bank of northwest pennsylvania is to provide food to those in need within eleven counties of northwest pennsylvania while creating awareness and educating the community on the realities of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Pennsylvania

Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…

Philanthropy
10
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
11
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
12
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Youth House Committee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keystone Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $7,000 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER: $5,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTERINDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERY: $5,000 · OtherINDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERYARCHIES PLACE: $2,500 · OtherARCHIES PLACEMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE: $1,500 · OtherMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,575 · OtherCASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN: $3,500 · OtherCASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN+11 more: $7,500 · Other+11 moreGOOD KARMA GARAGE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD KARMA GARAGEDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $5,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN DAILY BREADWish for Wheels Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWish for Wheels IncVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE CO…LEG UP FARM INC: $12,500 · AnimalsLEG UP FARM INCAnimal Friends Inc: $500 · AnimalsTHE JARED BOX PROJECT: $7,000 · HealthTHE JARED …LYCOMING COMMUNITY CARE INC: $500 · HealthLYCOMING C…JEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthJEFF MUSSE…KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $500 · HealthKEYSTONE H…LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER …NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH MUSE…TOMTOD IDEAS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC: $500 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $500 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$35,575Human Services$18,000Animals$13,000Health$8,500Arts & Culture$8,500Youth Development$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,575 over 1y, 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
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.

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 Shen…Trustmark FoundationPennsylvania Automoti…The Foundation for En…Lancaster County Comm…Firstenergy FoundationTruist Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Willis and Elsie Shenk FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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