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Reading Is Fundamental Inc

Reading is fundamental works to disrupt the alarming u.s.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025

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: $4,254,588.

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Median grant
States reached
$28M
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 — 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
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
The Literacy Project

In each school we partner with a group of six students are taught to read in 30 lessons using a game format. the program is admimistered by a master teacher who focuses on five essential reading components: phonemic awareness, phonics,…

Community Improvement
3
Reading Results

Reading results partners with schools to support students from systemically excluded communities in becoming successful readers. we believe that literacy is a basic human right, and we work to increase access and break down barriers…

4
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
5
Reading Is Fundamental Inc

Reading is fundamental works to disrupt the alarming u.s. literacy crisis by inspiring the joy of reading in children, a critical element to driving the frequency, motivation, and engagement needed to create skilled readers. we know that…

Education
6
Lancaster County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
7
Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School

It is the mission of early childhood academy public charter school to foster the academic and social/emotional growth and development of each student in a safe and holistic learning environment that will equip all students with the…

Education
8
Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

Education
9
Every Child a Reader in Escambia Inc Ecare

To maximize childrens potential through increased school readiness.

Education
10
Families in Schools

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

Education
11
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation

The barbara bush houston literacy foundation is dedicated to improving lives and communities through the power of literacy.(continued in schedule o)

Philanthropy
12
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

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersSchool District FoundationsPublic Library OperationsAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Foundations
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/214
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,351

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.

Share Our StrengthDC48.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Save the Music Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Dollar General Literacy Foundation

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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