Illinois · Nonprofit
ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A
ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $409
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $0
What Andys Books for Kids Sounds Like A does
Mission
The organization strives to promote literacy by providing children in underserved areas with access to books they otherwise would not have, giving them the chance to advance their academic achievement and the opportunity to discover the sheer pleasure of losing themselves in the pages of a good book. We achieve our mission by raising funds to purchase new children's books and by organizing book drives for the donation of children's books. These books are distributed to these children of all ages via school libraries, pre-k programs, head start, after-school programs, homeless shelters and the like.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2022, the company was dissolved and all cash and inventory was donated to reading foundations and schools.
$7,621 spentof which $7,621 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,621.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $40k to $21k (−48%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Meg Hodge
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A: 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 ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A?
- ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANDYS BOOKS FOR KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 1 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