MAKE GOOD INC
Make Good, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers immediate, tangible support to Los Angeles’s most vulnerable and underserved children, transition-age youth (TAY), and families through literacy, basic essentials, and partnership-based programs. Its signature programs — The Book Foundation and The TAY Shop at The Emporium: Foster Resource & Literacy Center — provide books, essentials, and wraparound supports designed to promote dignity and opportunity.
About MAKE GOOD INC
Make Good, Inc. (EIN 20-4525072) is a Los Angeles–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on on-the-ground services for children and transition-age youth who are system-impacted or underserved. The organization operates The Book Foundation and the TAY Shop at The Emporium, partnering with local organizations to distribute books, clothing, and essentials and to run workshops and shopping events that build skills and meet basic needs. In recent years Make Good has expanded its physical presence through The Emporium (a collaborative foster resource & literacy center) and increased program activity and partnerships across Los Angeles, delivering measurable distribution of books and hosting events and workshops that serve thousands of young people and families.
Notable achievements
Books distributed (major milestone)
Make Good reports distributing hundreds of thousands of books to young readers (site materials cite a milestone in the 600k–650k range), expanding literacy access through Book Nooks, school and housing installations, and direct distributions over the past several years.
Book Nooks and installations
Established and sustained dozens of Book Nook installations (two dozen installations cited) at schools and transitional housing sites across Los Angeles to create ongoing local access to age-appropriate books and literacy resources.
TAY Shop events and Emporium programming
Expanded the TAY Shop and Emporium programming with recurring shopping events, workshops, and appointment-based storefront services that provided clothing, career items, and essentials free of charge to transition-age foster youth and system-impacted young adults, including a notable increase in events and workshops reported in 2024–2025.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $265K
- Annual revenue
- $674K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 20-4525072
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Website
- www.makegoodinc.org
- On Mahalo since
- April 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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