South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Make a Difference Program
The Make a Difference Program (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $33k
What The Make a Difference Program does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to bridge the gap between the schools homes and communities. Providing opportunities for and support for youth K-12th grade students
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The tutoring services provided tutoring services to 60 students during the school year. This allowed the students to get the extra help they needed to reach their academic goals.
$33,000 spent55% of program spendingThe GET FIT program allowed the youth to get active and challenge themselves to stay active. A lot of parents in the community can not afford to pay for recreational activities. This program allowed 60 youth in the community to participate in sports active activities while learning to work with others from different backgrounds.
$15,000 spent25% of program spendingThe Social Emotional program allowed the youth to understand their mental health and the importance of dealing with things when they happen. The program allowed 60 youth to learn about mental health and social emotional and how to deal with their emotions.
$12,000 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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 The Make a Difference Program’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Make a Difference Program’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
The Make a Difference Program draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
The Make a Difference Program has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like The Make a Difference Program
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Make a Difference Program: 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 The Make a Difference Program?
- The Make a Difference Program (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Make a Difference Program have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to The Make a Difference Program.
- Who is the largest funder of The Make a Difference Program?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Make a Difference Program find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), 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