The Makers Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851206235
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Trenton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6097519128
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,303
- Expenses
- $151,981
- Assets
- $38,488
- Liabilities
- $2,920
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lori Pantaleo (President)
People named in this filing
- Callie Crowder (Executive Dir.)
- Laurel Jones (Secretary)
- Rev Ronell Howard (Trustee)
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
The Maker's Place exists to connect neighbors with neighbors, so that all children can experience life in abundant community.The organization operates a diaper bank focused primarily on collecting and distributing diapers, wipes, and emergency infant formulaThe HOPE Center provides other valued maternal and infant health resources to empower women, children, and families experiencing need. All funds collected by The Maker's Place will be used to purchase diapers and other supplies to be distributed to support and empower families in the Greater Trenton, New Jersey area.
What it reported doing in 2024
YOUFirst is a participant valued maternal health support program offered by The Maker's Place. The YOUFirst program provided mental health and wellness education to enrich the lives of participants and their families while reducing the stigma around therapy in marginalized communities. The program incorporates skill-building activities with topics such as stress management, self-awareness, reducing negative emotions and normalizing preventative mental health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
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: -25.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.