New Hampshire · Nonprofit
BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION
BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,712 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($29,212). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $664k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Believe in Books Literacy Foundation does
Mission
The Believe in Books Literacy Foundation has a broadening mission to enhance the quality of life by education, promotion, encouragement and aid to those of all ages in the appreciation of reading and literature, making a positive impact on literacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides books through its bookbag program to local elementary and pre-schools along with other reading related programs, such as its "books in characters" outreach program and "books from birth" program to encourage reading from early childhood through school and adulthood. Also, the foundation furthers its exempt purpose through its annual journey to the north pole event. This event strives to enhance the quality of life and develop the imagination of children through the enactment of a children's christmas book. While bringing to life the popular story, the event helps develop the imagination of the participants while fostering an excitement for reading.
$242,057 spent93% of program spendingThe organization issues grants to local organizations that promote children reading and literacy programs so that their goal of reaching as many local children as possible is acheived. In addition the organization also provides college scholarship monies for local students involved in literacy programs.
$2,999 spentof which $2,999 as grants1% of program spendingThe organization puts on childrens theater programs and events throughout the year to promote the arts and provide literacy related programs for school-age children as well as provide a set for their annual "journey to the north pole" enactment. The organization's property also includes a public hiking trail, an educational "storywalk" trail, as well as an educational maple sugaring house where childrens' groups and adults can learn about the history and process of maple sugaring in new hampshire.
$16,329 spent$35,000 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,385.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $3.3M to $3.7M (+12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Ao Lucy
Exec. Director
Board chair
Dana Belcher
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 4 funders by total. 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
BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION'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. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION: 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 BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION?
- BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,712 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($29,212). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $30,712 in grants to BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $29,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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