Florida · Nonprofit
BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC
BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,263 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($450,053). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $339k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $774k
What Books for Collier Kids Inc does
Mission
Books for collier kids provides new books to children in need. Access to books addresses one of the most important factors affecting literacy. We give books to children in our community to take home,share,cherish and own.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Books for collier kids gives books to more than 12,000 children a year in 435 classrooms to 36 elementary schools, including all 23 title I schools where more than 75% of the students rely on the free or reduced-cost meal program, in collier county, fl. Bck gives a book a month through-out the school year to children in pre-k, kindergarden, first- and second-grade classrooms, the critical age for development of reading skills. In 2024/2025 bck provided more than 147,397 books to elementary students.
$280,230 spent87% of program spendingBooks for collier kids (bck) works closely with a variety of more than 20 local non-profit agencies to ensure that children in need have books to take home, share and cherish. Bck works with habitat for humanity to provide 15+ age-appropriate books to over 100 home dedications each year. Bck works with boys & girls club, fostering success, formerly friends of foster children forever, guadalupe center,grace place and many others to support their reading programs, provide respite and security. In 2024/2025, 14,680 books were distributed via partners.
$12,884 spent4% of program spendingSummer slide occurs when children don't read over the summer and the fact that students who are not actively reading over the summer experience significant, cumulative reading skill loss. This loss especially affects children from low-income homes. In the 2025 summer, books for collier kids donated 20,100 new books to numerous summer programs such as boys & girls club, manatee and park side elementary schools, grace place and salvation army, ymca of collier, golisano children's museum and collier county sheriff's office.
$28,989 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $322,103.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $724k to $821k (+13%).
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.
93% of BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Sallie Williams
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $37k → $176k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 84% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% — 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
38% of BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC'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 $435k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $601k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS 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 BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC?
- BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,263 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($450,053). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,036,263 in grants to BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,053 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 39 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