Michigan · Nonprofit
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,916 to it, the largest being JOHN GEORGE JR PARAGRAPH X TRUST ($57,548). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Together We Can Make a Difference does
Mission
Non profit to serve the at risk population of jackson
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kidz explosion program - a free sidewalk sunday school style experience for children run weekly, after school, and during the summer months for children of all ages using fun activities and sharing bible stories.
$38,768 spent35% of program spendingLaundry angels - providing access to clean clothing for the at-risk population of jackson, mi continues to be a high priority in 2025. The program has been expanded over the past 2-3 years, shuttling families to a laundromat, paying for use of machines, serving 70 families each month.
$18,399 spent17% of program spendingMighty men program - a seven week program that taught 48 boys, ages 12-18 about the role of responsible christian men in society. They met 3 times a week and included a once a week hands-on class in basic skills such as carpentry and auto maintenance. There were 31 that graduated from the program.
$23,490 spent21% of program spendingSee "additional information" section on schedule o.
$28,616 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $85k to $61k (−28%).
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 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $40k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE’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
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 60% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
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 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: 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 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
- TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,916 to it, the largest being JOHN GEORGE JR PARAGRAPH X TRUST ($57,548). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $154,916 in grants to TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
- JOHN GEORGE JR PARAGRAPH X TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $57,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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