North Carolina · Nonprofit
TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE
TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FEED THE CHILDREN INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $150
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $127k
What Truly Making a Difference does
Mission
Educate, Empower, and Uplift Disadvantaged Members in Our Communities
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Feeding the Homeless
$0 spentGangsters to Teamsters; assisting formerly incarcerated members of gangs with obtaining CDL and securing legal income; reduced due to COVID and health issues of executive director.
$0 spentN/a
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $107k to $127k (+19%).
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 TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Karessa Stewart
President/Executive Director/Founder
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Against its field
TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE's revenue fell 100% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,663 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like TRULY MAKING 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 TRULY MAKING 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 TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
- TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FEED THE CHILDREN INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
- FEED THE CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), 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