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MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION

MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Inland Empire Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$521k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$154k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Making a Difference Association does

Mission

To provide education activities and services that increase public awareness of the effects of drugs alcohol and trauma exposure to children; to reduce child abuse and neglect; and to help strengthen and preserve families

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Making a Difference Association provided training and community education regarding alocohol drug and trauma exposure.

    $485,296 spent
    100% of program spending

  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $485,296.

02The 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 ($762k) Expenses 100 ($763k) Net assets 100 ($112k)2018 Revenue 96 ($728k) Expenses 95 ($727k) Net assets 24 ($27k)2019 Revenue 70 ($537k) Expenses 75 ($572k) Net assets 51 ($57k)2020 Revenue 79 ($603k) Expenses 71 ($539k) Net assets 79 ($89k)2021 Revenue 68 ($521k) Expenses 64 ($486k) Net assets 138 ($154k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (68)Expenses (64)Net assets (138)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $64k to $159k (+148%).

$189k
$125k
$64k
$159k
$226k
20172018201920202021
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$929
’17
$2k
’18
−$35k
’19
$64k
’20
$35k
’21
5.2
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed77777
Joined·+0+3+0+2
No longer listed·0302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION’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

100% of MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION

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 California

Learning to Impact Inc75%Knowing You Matter Inc72%Family Dynamics Resource Center72%No Drugs America Association Inc72%Soledad Enrichment Action Inc71%Mano a Mano Foundation71%Healing Early Adverse Relationships71%Making the Right Connections Inc71%

Nationally

Make a Difference Inc77%Make a Difference in King77%Make a Difference76%Learning to Impact Inc75%Make a Difference Leadership Foundation75%Making a Difference75%Hands That Make A Difference75%Making a Difference Foundation75%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
50%
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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION: 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION?
MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Inland Empire Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION?
Inland Empire Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAKING A DIFFERENCE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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