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· Public charity
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC
Motivating children to read by making reading a fun and beneficial part of everyday life.
$3.4M
Granted FY2024
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Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $3,420,967.
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Median grant
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States reached
$24M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Book Harvest
Book harvest provides books to children who need them and engages families and communities to promote children's lifelong literacy and academic success.
Education
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The Children's Reading Foundation
Early childhood literacy
Education
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Reading to Kids
Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives and opportunities for future success. Reading to Kids organizes monthly reading clubs at Los…
Education
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Family Reading Partnership
Family reading partnership connects families with young children to the joy of books and read-aloud experiences to expand their horizons.
Education
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Raising a Reader
Raising a Reader supports families and inspires the development of literacy skills and a lifelong love for reading. We help children attain brighter futures in which they can thrive and contribute in school, the workforce and society.
Education
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Make Way for Books
The mission of Make Way for Books is to give all children the chance to read and succeed.
Education
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The Fayette County Public Schools
The Fayette Education Foundation's mission is to support the educational needs of Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) through community collaboration and fundraising.The foundation's goals include promoting equity, fulfilling unmet needs,…
Education
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Page Turners Make Great Learners Inc
To expand children's knowledge and understanding of the world, themselves and their unique possibilities through a love of reading.
Human Services
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Between the Pages
Between the pages empowers children to discover a life-long love of reading using books as tools to immerse economically disadvantaged and avid readers in an engaging recreation of their favorite books, fostering literacy, creative play,…
Youth Development
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Kids Need to Read
Providing books to children and organizations that serve children, especially disadvantaged children.
Education
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Read Early and Daily Read
Empower families to foster empathy, curiosity, and self-confidence in their young children through the joy of reading together every day. Provide new, quality, culturally relevant books to babies and young children.
Education
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Childrens Book Project
The mission of the San Francisco-based Childrens Book Project (CBP) is to promote literacy by providing (1) free books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life, and (2) free literacy training, resources, and…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach Out and Read Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairview Health Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%2/168
the rest of the field
11%
206,163/1,819,397
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.
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.
GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL44.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of · The George W Bush Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Save the Music Foundation · Southern Poverty Law Center 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Reading Is Fundamental Inc?
Find your warmest path to Reading Is Fundamental Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines