Make a Difference Leadership Foundation

Analysis

Make a Difference Leadership Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Make a Difference Leadership Foundation reported income of $306k and spending of $342k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $226k to $306k (+35%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 499%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Make a Difference Leadership Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 59th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Haiti Project Inc ($306k), Mission Resource International Inc ($306k) and Jeremie Christian Mission Inc ($306k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.9% of the total. At year end it held assets of $428k against liabilities of $319k, net assets of $109k.