Make717 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474031076
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Ephrata, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175371067
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,519
- Expenses
- $86,636
- Assets
- $31,219
- Liabilities
- $5,264
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF NOLT (PRESIDENT/DI)
People named in this filing
- BENJAMIN EISEMANN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- JEFF NOLT (PRESIDENT/DI)
- ALEX VAN PATTEN (VICE PRES/DI)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the community with a "makerspace" where people with common interests can congregate, interface and collaborate, sharing knowledge and resources for the purpose of learning and making goods.
What it reported doing in 2025
A community workshop provides tools and equipment in a shared workshop environment. Key areas include a machine shop, fab lab, soft goods, and woodshop. In the library pass program, the organization partnered with the library system of lancaster county to provide access passes for circulation in area libraries. Patrons can check out the pass and get free access to the facility. Equipment orientations offer free monthly events concerning three key equipment areas (3d printing, cnc carving, and laser cutting/engraving), training members and library pass holders in the safe operation of equipment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
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: -3.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.