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Make an Impact Foundation

Make an Impact Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,936 to it, the largest being ECW GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($132,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year. Make an Impact Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2025
$776k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$404k
Net assets
$427k
5/18 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

Make an Impact Foundation administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programMake an Impact Foundation runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$7k

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$404k

Donors on record

18

Payments out are 0.02x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($210k) Expenses 100 ($234k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2018 Revenue 144 ($301k) Expenses 120 ($280k) Net assets 124 ($108k)2019 Revenue 505 ($1.1M) Expenses 404 ($944k) Net assets 253 ($222k)2020 Revenue 389 ($815k) Expenses 375 ($876k) Net assets 183 ($161k)2021 Revenue 249 ($522k) Expenses 209 ($489k) Net assets 222 ($195k)2022 Revenue 443 ($929k) Expenses 370 ($865k) Net assets 298 ($261k)2023 Revenue 667 ($1.4M) Expenses 557 ($1.3M) Net assets 405 ($354k)2024 Revenue 606 ($1.3M) Expenses 619 ($1.4M) Net assets 208 ($182k)2025 Revenue 370 ($776k) Expenses 212 ($495k) Net assets 488 ($427k)
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Revenue (370)Expenses (212)Net assets (488)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $331k to $582k (+76%).

$178k
$211k
$392k
$265k
$331k
$582k
$561k
$387k
$617k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
$21k
’18
$114k
’19
−$61k
’20
$34k
’21
$64k
’22
$95k
’23
−$178k
’24
$281k
’25
13
months of
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

Dale Gillmore

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed996444447
Joined·+0+1+0+1+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·04210000
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $167k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
4
2
5
5
3
2

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 an Impact Foundation’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.

Where its funders are

Make an Impact Foundation draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.

MI
MA
NJ
MO
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Make an Impact Foundation: 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 an Impact Foundation?
Make an Impact Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,936 to it, the largest being ECW GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($132,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year. Make an Impact Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does Make an Impact Foundation have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $403,936 in grants to Make an Impact Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Make an Impact Foundation?
ECW GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $132,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Make an Impact Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 18 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