Make Literary Productions Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800145269
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7735527440
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,314
- Expenses
- $84,597
- Assets
- $106,234
- Liabilities
- $879
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH DODSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- HECTOR GARCIA CHAVEZ (DIRECTOR)
- KAMILAH FOREMAN (DIRECTOR)
- LAURIE SARTAIN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To publish, distribute, and promote contemporary literature from both emerging and established writers, as well as offer educational opportunities regarding publishing and literature.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publish, distribute, and promote contemporary literature through print production, make magazine
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.