New York · Nonprofit
Make the Grade Foundation
Make the Grade Foundation (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,500 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Make the Grade Foundation does
Mission
Primary Exempt Purpose - Make the Grade Foundation is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization that facilitates and encourages academic achievement by implementing programs to tutor, mentor and motivate students, and providing incentives and funding. The organization enhances the educational experience of young people through collaboration with students, parents, educators, clergy and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Partner with schools and churches to build Internet Radio Stations that facilitate the charitable purpose of the organization.
$9,780 spent79% of program spendingPartner with local churchs who prepare food for people in under served communities by providing turkeys during the holidays.
$2,604 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,384.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $30k to $62k (+104%).
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 the Grade Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of Make the Grade 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Make the Grade Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 the Grade Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2021 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Make the Grade Foundation's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 the Grade Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Make the Grade Foundation
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.
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 the Grade 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 the Grade Foundation?
- Make the Grade Foundation (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,500 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make the Grade Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $59,500 in grants to Make the Grade Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make the Grade Foundation?
- TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make the Grade Foundation 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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