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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 FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
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Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $695,649.

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Median grant
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States reached
$805k
Total assets
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.
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.

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Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
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Ball Charter Schools(Dobson)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
3
Ball Charter Schools (Hearn)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
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Pan-American Elementary Charter School

Educational services for grades k-12

Education
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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
6
Montessori Education Centre Charter School

Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles

Education
7
Desert Heights Charter Schools

In collaboration with our community and stakeholders, the School will provide a rigorous, standards based academic environment through a balance of intensive, compassionate teaching. We are dedicated to the development of vibrant,…

Education
8
Concordia Charter School

To provide families a choice for a high quality education for their child or children in a safe, caring and harmonious environment.

Education
9
Accelerated Elementary and Secondary Schools

Operation of a private school

Education
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Arizona Language Preparatory

The schools mission is to provide a quality education using a tri-lingual curriculum for kingergarten through 6th grade students

Education
11
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
12
Eagle Arizona

To operate a charter school and educate children. students graduate from eagle well prepared to become inspirations to their families, leaders in their communities, and successes in their workplace.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound; the most unlike its peers is Mighty Change of Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 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.

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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