Illinois · Nonprofit
MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP
MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,366 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($41,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio match
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $500.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP’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 LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 63% · 2020 78% · 2021 96% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
64% of MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamaasusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gaea Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mrs Giles Whiting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Walder Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP?
- MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,366 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($41,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $112,366 in grants to MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $41,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing