The Making It Institute for the Advancement of Business Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800303337
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103927322
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Small Business Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Assets
- $500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NELSON DAVIS (President)
People named in this filing
- NELSON DAVIS (President)
- ANDREA GIAMBRONE (Director)
- FRANK MORAN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of this entity is education for small business owners.the organization is now inactive.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization compiled a list of resources for small business owners which was distributed by their website and ran a series of public service announcements for the "fast track program" at university of southern California on ktla television in los angeles, California.the organization hosted the "superstars of small business" event. This one day event served people from the community who were tutored by instructors from long beach city college and four entrepreneurs.the organization is now inactive.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.