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Arizona · Public charity

Kids Need to Read

KIDS NEED TO READ helps children to discover the joy of reading and the power of a literate mind by providing inspiring books and literacy programs to underfunded schools, libraries, and community agencies across the united states, especially those serving disadvantaged children.

$696k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
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Total assets, FY2025
$805k

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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.

Arizona Community Fou…St Mary's Food Bank A…Valley of the Sun Uni…GenYOUTH IncorporatedArizona Food Bank Net…Virginia G Piper Char…United Food BankArizona Diamondbacks …A for ArizonaPhoenix Suns Charitie…Fiesta Events IncNina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ50.1× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Valley of the Sun United Way · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Arizona Food Bank Network · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · United Food Bank · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · A for Arizona · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

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.

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How do I get to Kids Need to Read?

Find your warmest path to Kids Need to Read through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kids Need to Read

How much does Kids Need to Read give?
Kids Need to Read reported $695,649 in grants in its FY2025 IRS filing. Individual grant detail isn't itemized in the e-filed return we have. It is referenced on an attached schedule, or the latest filing isn't in our corpus yet.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kids Need to Read?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, St Mary's Food Bank Alliance, Valley of the Sun United Way.
Where is Kids Need to Read based?
Kids Need to Read is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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