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Worldreaderorg

Worldreader is a global tech nonprofit, providing award-winning free-digital reading app, booksmart, to help families prepare young children for learning, by fostering reading routines-a proven formula to build school-readiness and lifelong learning habits.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Education$128kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $72,190 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,174,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,102,110 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC$25,000
THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE$18,135
BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$11,000
PLAY SMART LITERACY$10,000
VOCEL VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS$8,055
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Grants abroad, by region — $915k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$669k · 73% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS, FUNDACION WORLD READER.

Sub-Saharan Africa$246k · 27% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS, WORLDREADER GHANA. · GENERAL OPERATIONS, WORLDREADER KENYA.

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. 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 3 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$66k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue -29%
  • PS
    PLAY SMART LITERACY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +16%
  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • SP
    STATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • CP
    CENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Smart Love Parenting Center

To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.

Human Services
2
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
3
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers

child advocacy

Education
4
Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc

The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.

Education
5
Childrens Learning Center Inc

Provides high quality, comprehensive, early childhood education and childcare in a safe and nurturing environment for Dekalb, IL area families. The experienced teachers and staff provide age-appropriate curriculum through play-based…

Human Services
6
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
7
Whole Child Collaborative

To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities

Education
8
Childrens Cooperative Playschool Inc

Preschool program

Education
9
Christopher House

Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…

Human Services
10
Polaris Charter Academy

To organize and operate a charter school in chicago, il and engage in other education activities permissable under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.

Education
11
Community Learning Center Schools Inc

To empower all youth to take ownership of their educational experience, to celebrate their diverse community, and to actively participate as members in a democratic society.

Education
12
Brooklyn Charter School

Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Broward Education Foundation Inc. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $18,135 · EducationTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER C…PLAY SMART LITERACY — $17,500 · EducationPLAY SMART LITERACYBroward Education Foundation Inc — $11,000 · EducationBroward Education Foundation IncCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC — $7,500 · EducationCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INCETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $5,625 · EducationETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL INCCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLO…Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $15,555 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emer…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOTHE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS — $7,500 · OtherTHE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCA…STATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $7,500 · OtherSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCA…GENOA-KINGSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT — $7,500 · OtherGENOA-KINGSTON SCHOOL D…THE BLACK BOOK PROJECT — $7,500 · OtherTHE BLACK BOOK PROJECTCAHOKIA UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #187 — $7,500 · OtherCAHOKIA UNIT SCHOOL DIS…SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP — $7,500 · Human ServicesSGA YOUTH & F…BURST INTO BOOKS — $7,500 · Human ServicesBURST INTO BO…LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesLAUNDRYCARES …TUTORING CHICAGO — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$59,760Youth Development$55,555Other$37,500Human Services$22,500Arts & Culture$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC — $32,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $18,135 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPLAY SMART LITERACY — $17,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $15,555 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURST INTO BOOKS — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $5,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Worldreaderorg funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 72%
  • Statewide Parent Advocacy Network Inc72% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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