California · Nonprofit
MAKERUSA INC
MAKERUSA INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being ARCONIC FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $306k
What Makerusa Inc does
Mission
Makerusa's mission is to partner with the communities that have been most marginalized by unequal access and opportunity and support their goals to leverage maker education to enable community-driven innovation, entrepreneurship and stem career pathways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tennessee program: the tennessee program is focused on broadening access to inclusive maker education and makerspaces in the knoxville region. This includes collaborating with key organizations in this community, including the tennessee college of applied technology, knoxville, and the maker city.
$78,604 spent46% of program spendingGeneral program: general program focus on the development and sustainability of the makerusa learning network, a national community of practice composed of 30+ leading institutions and organizations to share their work and learnings, and collaborate on shared challenges related to maker education and inclusive makerspaces.
$41,731 spent24% of program spendingGeogria program: the georgia program is focused on a collaboration with the atlanta-based non-profit organization, ste(a)m truck. Makerusa supports their efforts to broaden access to inclusive maker education through program design, advocacy, and partnership development.
$39,864 spentof which $23,333 as grants23% of program spendingOther programs - colorado program
$11,501 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $171,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $122k to $307k (+151%).
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.
100% of MAKERUSA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Stephanie Santoso
Co-founder and CEO
Board chair
Kimberly Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MAKERUSA 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
MAKERUSA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
MAKERUSA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MAKERUSA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAKERUSA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKERUSA 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 MAKERUSA INC?
- MAKERUSA INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being ARCONIC FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKERUSA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $325,000 in grants to MAKERUSA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKERUSA INC?
- ARCONIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKERUSA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing