Texas · Nonprofit
SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION
SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,750,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,750,000). 1 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 FY2024
- $725k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $419k
What Small Difference Foundation does
Mission
Small Difference Foundation is committed to guiding youth through purpose-driven initiatives that nurture creativity inspire life-time learning and promote overall health and wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
"Can We Know" Project which is a cross collaboration between musicians dancers spoken word and art to create a performance piece premiering at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and Carnegie Hall in 2024. We underwrote the collaboration over many years prior to forming SDF.
$0 spentPurchase of the artwork "Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness" for students art education and appreciation which was donated to Museum Fine Arts Houston in 2024.
$0 spentBarbers Hill ISD Educational Foundation for student support.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $310k to $419k (+35%).
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 SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Deborah Koehler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 SMALL DIFFERENCE 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
100% of SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION'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. $1.8M 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
SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SMALL DIFFERENCE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMALL DIFFERENCE 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 SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION?
- SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,750,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,750,000). 1 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 SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,750,000 in grants to SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMALL DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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