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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.

$718k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$128kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $717,536 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $617,536 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC$20,000
LAAMISTAD$20,000
PLAY SMART LITERACY$20,000
PLANNING YOUR SUCCESS CHICAGO$20,000
WORLD VISION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $617k on the FY2025 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)$416k · 67% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS, FUNDACION WORLD READER.

Sub-Saharan Africa$201k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS, WORLDREADER KENYA.

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 3 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$106k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue -13%
  • PS
    PLAY SMART LITERACY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +65%
  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELANDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +30%
  • BE
    Broward Education Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue -23%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

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
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
3
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
4
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

—
5
Working in the Schools Inc

Wits believes that literacy is the foundation on which all other learning develops. our mission is to empower chicago elementary students to discover themselves through reading while developing foundational literacy skills. we do this by…

Education
6
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
Whole Child Collaborative

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

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
Childhood Education International

To promote innovative solutions to education challenges and inspire action that creates positive, sustainable futures for children and youth worldwide

—
11
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
12
Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp; the most unlike its peers is The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA…LaAmistad Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLaAmistad IncVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $15,555 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOPLAY SMART LITERACY: $37,500 · EducationPLAY SMART LITERACYTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $18,135 · EducationTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GRE…Broward Education Foundation Inc: $11,000 · EducationBroward Education Foundation In…CENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC: $7,500 · EducationCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INCETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,625 · EducationETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL …PLANNING YOUR SUCCESS: $20,000 · OtherPLANNING YOUR SUCCESSTHE BLACK BOOK PROJECT: $7,500 · OtherTHE BLACK BOOK PROJECTCAHOKIA UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #187: $7,500 · OtherCAHOKIA UNIT SCHOOL DIS…STATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $7,500 · OtherSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCA…GENOA-KINGSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,500 · OtherGENOA-KINGSTON SCHOOL D…THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS: $7,500 · OtherTHE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCA…BURST INTO BOOKS: $7,500 · Human ServicesBURST INT…SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $7,500 · Human ServicesSGA YOUTH…LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesLAUNDRYCA…WORLD VISION INC: $20,000 · InternationalTUTORING CHICAGO: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Youth Development$95,555Education$79,760Other$57,500Human Services$22,500International$20,000Arts & Culture$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC: $52,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPLAY SMART LITERACY: $37,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $18,135 over 1y, 2.4% 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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL PLACE ACADEMY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURST INTO BOOKS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Worldreaderorg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worldreaderorg. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 72%
  • Statewide Parent Advocacy Network Inc: 72% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, 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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