Make It Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831112894
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5033326527
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,203
- Expenses
- $44,016
- Assets
- $458,652
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CONNOR PRESIDENT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN CONNOR PRESIDENT (PRESIDENT)
- ALEX NELSON (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- JESSICA CRANELL-MENARD (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Make it foundation's belief that every person deserves the opportunity to advance their skills or ideas for entrepreneurial development in order to create a stable income for themselves remains the guiding principle of our grantmaking.
What it reported doing in 2022
We received a donation of property in late 2019. This property will contribute to the overall mission by serving as a point of collaboration with partner organizations, a meeting center for other nonprofits, and a working lab for our partner organizations. Our real estate asset has been upgraded for safety and will be available once covid allows for safe use. Nearly all expenses in 2022 were dedicated to this asset.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -292.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.42; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -89% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.