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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $5,561,490, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,747,631 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $186,141 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,780,745
Median grant
2
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Teach for All$2,780,745
Ashoka$2,780,745
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $156k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$156k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO CHILDREN

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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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3
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

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

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Elevate Early Education Inc

Our mission is to raise awareness, advocate and create innovative initiatives to give children equitable access to a high-quality education for the first eight years of their lives.

Education
7
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland

The literacy cooperative of cleveland was formed for public, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes relating to the improvement of the literacy rate in the greater cleveland area.

Education
8
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
9
American Academy of Pediatrics

The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…

Health
10
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

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11
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach Out and Read Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

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

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherPARENTCHILD INC: $15,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS: $15,000 · OtherARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFJC: $6,500 · OtherPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$2,960,745International$2,866,928Other$71,500Health$35,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$15,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBOOK HARVEST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetRaising A Reader: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Book funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Book. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $226k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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