New York · Nonprofit
BOOK FAIRIES INC
BOOK FAIRIES INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,321,192 to it, the largest being JOHN AND JANET KORNREICH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD ($216,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $902k
What Book Fairies Inc does
Mission
Book fairies sources and redistributes books to under-resourced communities on long island, new york city and internationally to provide equitable opportunities for children to learn, grow, and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, the book fairies distributed approximately 747,000 books to people in need throughout long island, new york city, and internationally through its various programs.book fairies distributes books through: monthly book fairs: once a month, we open our book bank to educators from schools and nonprofit organizations working with individuals living in under-resourced communities. Attendees select as many of our carefully sorted books as they can during a 1-hour time slot. Typically, 12,000-20,000 books are distributed at each event, helping to increase access to books for people across long island and new york city.community/school partnerships: established in 2021, this program was designed to provide targeted, multi-year support to teachers, schools, and community organizations working in under-resourced communities. Through a combination of student book fairs, customized deliveries to teachers, and giveaways to promote reading during school breaks, we help to build home, classroom, and school libraries and foster a culture of literacy.public bookshelves: we supply, maintain, and refresh book collections in a variety of locations, including health centers, public parks,…
$706,468 spent$14,320 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $706,468.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $746k to $1.3M (+70%).
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: 2019 2% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BOOK FAIRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Eileen Minogue
Executive director
Board chair
Steven Miller Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $11k → $239k.
7 of 63 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 BOOK FAIRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
BOOK FAIRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 55% · 2019 64% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of BOOK FAIRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of BOOK FAIRIES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
BOOK FAIRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOOK FAIRIES INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 BOOK FAIRIES INC: 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 BOOK FAIRIES INC?
- BOOK FAIRIES INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,321,192 to it, the largest being JOHN AND JANET KORNREICH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD ($216,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOOK FAIRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $1,321,192 in grants to BOOK FAIRIES INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOK FAIRIES INC?
- JOHN AND JANET KORNREICH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $216,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOK FAIRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing