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First Book

Founded in 1992, FIRST BOOK is a nonprofit social enterprise building a world where all children have access to a quality education.

$5.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$5.6MEducation$245kInternational$86kHuman Services$15kCivil Rights$15kCommunity Improvement$15kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $5,561,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,747,631 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $186,141 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$2,780,745
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Teach for All$2,780,745
Ashoka$2,780,745
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NBCDI (NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVEL INST): $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Read Alliance Inc

Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…

Education
2
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
3
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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4
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
5
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…

Science & Tech
6
Reading Team Inc

The reading team runs two early literacy programs: (1) preschool - 2x/week (2-hrs/session) teachers instruct 3 and 4 year old children on phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and sound manipulation. (2) after-school - 5x/week…

Human Services
7
Read Better Be Better

Read better be better's mission is to connect young readers and youth leaders to inspire a love of literacy and leadership.

Education
8
Every Child a Reader in Escambia Inc Ecare

To maximize childrens potential through increased school readiness.

Education
9
Reading Partners

To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…

Education
10
Reach Out and Read Colorado

Reach out and read colorado improves school readiness and social-emotional skills in colorado's youngest children by training and partnering with healthcare providers to encourage families to read aloud together and by providing age and…

Youth Development
11
Families in Schools

To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.

Education
12
Readworksinc

Readworks is an education-technology non-profit focused on improving reading comprehension that, through its digital platform, provides research-based content, curricular supports, and other features that integrate with core english…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach Out and Read Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reach Out and Read Rhode Island. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%47%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,780,745 · EducationTEACH FOR ALL INC+10 more — $180,000 · Education+10 moreASHOKA — $2,780,745 · InternationalASHOKA+1 more — $86,183 · InternationalAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AFL-CIO PARENT ORGANIZATION — $25,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS — $15,000 · OtherPARENTCHILD INC — $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $10,000 · OtherFJC — $6,500 · OtherPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $10,000 · HealthHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,960,745International$2,866,928Other$71,500Health$35,000Community Improvement$15,000Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASHOKA — $2,780,745 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,780,745 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION — $86,183 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRaising A Reader — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOOK HARVEST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AFL-CIO PARENT ORGANIZATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROOM TO READ — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

WK Kellogg FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization First Book funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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