New York · Nonprofit
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,420 to it, the largest being The James and Sharon Maida Foundation ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $989k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $903k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Make a Change World Inc does
Mission
Protecting the oceans and waterways around the world from pollution through clean-up efforts and educational awareness campaigns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Supported yayasan sungai watch indonesia, a sister organization of make a change world, inc. In indonesia through a fund that financed two projects, the sungai watch mangrove project and the banyuwangi project.the sungai watch mangrove project builds and operates a material sorting facility in the mangrove areas of denpasar, bali, indonesia and purchases equipment for washing and shredding plastics.(continued on schedule o)the banyuwangi project intercepts, sorts, and processes significant amounts of river waste in banyuwangi, indonesia, before the waste reaches ocean waters. The goal is to fund thirty river trash barriers, a sorting facility in banyuwangi, and fifteen full time staff per year.the banyuwangi project also aims to remove at least two hundred tons of plastic waste from banyuwangi throughout the duration of the agreement.
$364,782 spentof which $364,782 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $364,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $928k to $1.4M (+49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $180k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC?
- MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,420 to it, the largest being The James and Sharon Maida Foundation ($240,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $903,420 in grants to MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC?
- The James and Sharon Maida Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing