Tennessee · Nonprofit
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
MAKE A DIFFERENCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,389 to it, the largest being SCHECHTER FOUNDATION ($1,373). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Make a Difference does
Mission
Make A Difference, Inc. is a state licensed Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program designed to treat the critical needs (mental health and chemical addiction issues) of indigent and uninsured adults in need of intensive treatment on an outpatient basis. However, these individuals cannot afford to pay for such needed services. State grants such as CTC- Community Treatment Collaboration, ARP-Addiction Recovery Program, and COC - Continuum of Care make it possible to assist in meeting the needs of these indigent clients. Our treatment services include individual, group, family therapy, case management services, home monitoring, psychiatric evaluations by an MD Board Certified psychiatrist, medications, medication follow-up, transportation, housing assistance, as well as collaborating with other health agencies that provide medical, dental, and vision care to help meet the overall needs of our clients in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Addiction Recovery Program(ARP) reimburses for addiction recovery services rendered. ARP grants help make it possible to continue to treat countless individuals in need of our services. The beneficial outcome of our program has helped clients become mentally stable, gain sobriety from a lifestyle of alcohol/chemical addiction, get their GED or go back to school, become employed or get job promotions, elevate an individual's self-esteem, develop a sense of hopefulness, tell others about how they can benefit by participating in our program, etc. Additional funding is needed in order to meet the growing demands of our target population. More state federal funding would allow our agency to expand and create more programs that will prove to be even more beneficial to the clients we serve. We take pleasure in meeting the needs of our clients.
$24,000 spent$24,299 earned by the program8% of program spendingCommunity Treatment Collaboration(CTC) helps with costs associated with intensive outpatient treatment services like intake, group therapy, individual/group sessions. CTC grants help make it possible to continue to treat countless individuals in need of our services. The beneficial outcome of our program has helped clients become mentally stable, gain sobriety from a lifestyle of alcohol/chemical addiction, get their GED or go back to school, become employed or get job promotions, elevate an individual's self-esteem, develop a sense of hopefulness, tell others about how they can benefit by participating in our program, etc. Additional funding is needed in order to meet the growing demands of our target population. More state/federal funding would allow our agency to expand and create more programs that will prove to be even more beneficial to the clients we serve. We take pleasure in meeting the needs of our clients.
$83,000 spent$93,375 earned by the program29% of program spendingShelby County Government help make it possible to continue to treat countless individuals in need of our services. The beneficial outcome of our program has helped clients become mentally stable, gain sobriety from a lifestyle of alcohol chemical addiction, get their GED or go back to school, become employed or get job promotions, elevate an individual's self-esteem, develop a sense of hopefulness, tell others about how they can benefit by participating in our program, etc. Additional funding is needed in order to meet the growing demands of our target population. More state federal funding would allow our agency to expand and create more programs that will prove to be even more beneficial to the clients we serve. We take pleasure in meeting the needs of our clients.
$0 spent0% of program spendingContinuum of Care (COC) Outpatient addiction treatment and mental health treatment. Clients learned about the illness of substance addiction and learned to prevent relapse. Clients also became stabilized and compliant with taking their psychotropic meds as a result. Relapse prevention, abstinence, and mental health stabilization for COC on an outpatient basis. The beneficial outcome of our program has helped clients become mentally stable, gain sobriety from a lifestyle of alcohol chemical addiction, get their GED or go back to school, become employed or get job promotions, elevate an individual's self-esteem, develop a sense of hopefulness, tell others about how they can benefit by participating in our program, etc. Additional funding is needed in order to meet the growing demands of our target population. More state federal funding would allow our agency to expand and create more programs that will prove to be even more beneficial to the clients we serve. We take pleasure in meeting the needs of our clients.
$171,169 spent$191,169 earned by the program60% of program spendingAddition Recovery Program American (ARPA) The ARAP grant? A Rescue Plan Act Supplemental Funding Substance Use, Prevention and Treatment. It afforded us the opportunity to provided additional case management and must needed services for clients who were diagnosed w/ Covid-19. We also provided drugs and alcohol recovery support services for these clients in need of such specialized services.
$7,292 spent$17,675 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,461.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $163k to $209k (+28%).
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.
0% of MAKE A DIFFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Bruce Cole
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DIFFERENCE’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 DIFFERENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 DIFFERENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 DIFFERENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE A DIFFERENCE: 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 DIFFERENCE?
- MAKE A DIFFERENCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,389 to it, the largest being SCHECHTER FOUNDATION ($1,373). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE A DIFFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,389 in grants to MAKE A DIFFERENCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
- SCHECHTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE A DIFFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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