Georgia · Nonprofit
MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC
MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,038 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($239,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $428k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Make Startups Institute Inc does
Mission
The vision of our hackerspace is a self sustaining creative technology cooperative workshop that provides people with the space, equipment, instruction, guidance, and friendships necessary to tackle any challenge they may face. We believe that the sole purpose of technology is to better human lives, and that through mastery of it, our members can enjoy higher quality of life while also being individually more productive. Our goal is to better the economic circumstances of our community through venture creation based upon humanistic ideals and long term sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support entrepreneurship & start up businesses with multi week crash courses for indepth learning, technical training, an inclusive environment for peers to share and nurture ideas into actionable business ventures and promote innovation. Members have access to hot desks up to private offices, lab space & specialized equipment and peers with different expertise all within the ga cyber center complex for them to develop ideas into viable business's while being guided by the clubhou.se's staff & directors.
$277,950 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,950.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $277k to $30k (−89%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 1% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $75k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 63% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC?
- MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,038 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($239,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $428,038 in grants to MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $239,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing