Maketank Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Illustrated memoir work with immigrant and refugee youth to increase literacy and self-efficacy. We also share those memoirs as open educational resources to increase global understanding.
- Income
- $63,872
- Spending
- $47,612
- Reserves
- 7.4 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 85%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending July 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending July 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending July 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $31,288 spent. Traveled to the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Isingiro District, Uganda to run the Illustrated Memoir Project with 44 young refugees there throughout the month of May. We partnered with staff from Alight Uganda to coordinate work sites and logistics and arrange accommodations and facilitate travel. All 44 participants completed their memoirs which were assembled and published as bound books as well as digital books that were then shared back with the participants as well as with the library in the refugee settlement for permanent circulation.
- $4,763 spent. Illustrated memoir project at Aiken High School and Western University High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Worked with 78 students over a 4 month period to produce original illustrated memoirs then developed ways to share the completed memoirs with the broader public.
- $3,464 spent. Traveling exhibition of original artwork from the first five years of the illustrated memoir project. Had 31 pieces of original artwork professionally framed and produced an anthology of 16 stories to be shared with the public through various partnerships with galleries and art centers. The exhibition spent 2 months at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center where thousands of visitors viewed the work, with over 4,000 viewers in the first year.
- $3,900 spent. Conducted and facilitated various story times at community centers and schools as well as filming of participants story times in partnership with public library and created digital versions of existing memoirs for access by public on-line.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending July 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending July 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2014.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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