Tennessee · Nonprofit
EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS
EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,540 to it, the largest being PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Early Literacy Ambassadors does
Mission
Our vision is to provide at-risk children with reading interventions so they will be prepared for college and careers. Our two main activities are read-aloud opportunities and small guided reading intervention groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
ELA began reading intervention programs and served 141 children. All of the students in our reading group program met or exceeded their reading goals. All third graders enrolled in our program passed their high stakes reading proficiency exam. We trained and mentored 3 volunteers and a summer intern to help expand our reach. We partnered with 2 schools and 4 libraries in order to carry out our mission.
$1,971 spentof which $24,153 as grants50% of program spendingThis year ELA served 144 students with the help of 7 college student volunteers and interns. 140 hours of instruction were provided through story time and reading groups. 120 books were read to children in Grundy County Head Start centers. 100% of reading group students in Franklin County met or exceeded their reading goal.
$1,971 spentof which $24,154 as grants50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,942.
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 $10k to $53k (+413%).
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.
98% of EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $11k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS’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
EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
65% 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 EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 71% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 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
EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS: 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 EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS?
- EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,540 to it, the largest being PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,540 in grants to EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS?
- PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LITERACY AMBASSADORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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