Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $26k
What African American Childrens Book Pro does
Mission
To promote child literacy rate
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The African American Childrens Book Fair focus on connecting author and illustrators and their books from Pre-K to young adults
$33,226 spentof which $39,000 as grants47% of program spendingRead To See ME is a program that engages young readers by featuring live presentations from authors in a school or virtual setting
$24,416 spentof which $33,750 as grants34% of program spendingBook Giveaway- Gives brand new books gives to teachers and librarians new books to use in their institutions free of charge
$13,509 spentof which $3,260 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,151.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12k to $104k (+760%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
71% of AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO?
- AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,000 in grants to AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing