WHY CANT WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 42-1676799 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2025: $39,102
Expenses 2025: $50,186

Program services were 19.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: P20
Classification: 1000
Street: 6102 S CITRUS AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals by providing social and financial support to those dealing with the unforseen trials and tribulations of this world.

Helping youth acheive success in education by tutoring, financial assistance and motivational and leadership programs

Expenses $9,597 · Revenue $34,102

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Derek Richardson

Excutive Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40
Tia Brown

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

15
Virgina Guitan

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

15
Stanley Folkes

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Diandra Bremon

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Sharla Holland

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$39,102

Expenses

$50,186

Contributions

$39,102

Grants paid

$8,256
2024

Revenue

$165,885

Expenses

$172,518

Contributions

$165,885

Grants paid

$100,475
2023

Revenue

$348,820

Expenses

$348,820

Contributions

$348,820

Grants paid

$296,700
2022

Revenue

$187,043

Expenses

$242,220

Contributions

$187,043

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$39,102	$50,186	$39,102	$8,256
2024	$165,885	$172,518	$165,885	$100,475
2023	$348,820	$348,820	$348,820	$296,700
2022	$187,043	$242,220	$187,043	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$188,954

Expenses

$155,875

Assets (EOY)

$75,325
2020 · 990

Revenue

$268,348

Expenses

$258,326

Assets (EOY)

$42,246
2019 · 990

Revenue

$222,152

Expenses

$223,616

Assets (EOY)

$32,224
2018 · 990

Revenue

$224,743

Expenses

$194,385

Assets (EOY)

$33,688
2017 · 990

Revenue

$181,462

Expenses

$181,118

Assets (EOY)

$3,330
2016 · 990

Revenue

$168,001

Expenses

$170,724

Assets (EOY)

$2,986
2015 · 990

Revenue

$200,840

Expenses

$175,193

Assets (EOY)

$5,709
2014 · 990

Revenue

$107,232

Expenses

$129,954

Assets (EOY)

$1,609
2013 · 990

Revenue

$55,754

Expenses

$54,036

Assets (EOY)

$5,711
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$106,951

Assets (EOY)

$6,781

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$188,954	$155,875	$75,325
2020	990	$268,348	$258,326	$42,246
2019	990	$222,152	$223,616	$32,224
2018	990	$224,743	$194,385	$33,688
2017	990	$181,462	$181,118	$3,330
2016	990	$168,001	$170,724	$2,986
2015	990	$200,840	$175,193	$5,709
2014	990	$107,232	$129,954	$1,609
2013	990	$55,754	$54,036	$5,711
2012	990	not reported	$106,951	$6,781

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

DOLORED T RICHSO

$296,700

2023 SUPPORT
DOLORES T RICHAR

$91,030

2024 SUPPORT
Dolores T Richardson

$39,102

2025 Support
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024
no cash amount reported

2024

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC

$27,000

2023 ASSIST UNDERSERVED CHILDREN
WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC

$14,200

2024 ASSIST UNDERSERVED CHILDREN

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.