Making a Difference Foundation

Analysis

Making a Difference Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tacoma, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2003, 23 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, Making a Difference Foundation reported income of $12.9m and spending of $12.1m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.8m to $12.9m (+245%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Making a Difference Foundation sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Far Reaching Ministries ($12.9m), Henry L Stimson Center ($13.0m) and Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture ($12.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $843k. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $2.7m, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 62 employees.