Make a Difference Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260800220
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2083092100
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400,047
- Expenses
- $374,856
- Assets
- $666,357
- Liabilities
- $120
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THERESA GRANT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- THERESA GRANT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,579 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide access to quality education to vulnerable youth and women.
What it reported doing in 2024
What started in tanzania has now expanded to africa, north america and central america. The organizations mission is to help end poverty by providing vulnerable youth, and women with access to quality education; creating responsible leaders who later transform that knowledge into impactful changes in their respective communities. Since 2008, mad has provided scholarships to hardworking, talented youth from impoverished and war torn backgrounds. Additionally, mad has created innovative programs and facilities for students ranging from educational outdoor trips, up-to-date science labs and technology centers, girls empowerment workshops, sports programs, and libraries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $336K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.