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EVERY CHILD A READER INC

EVERY CHILD A READER INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,867 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($141,554). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$83k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$298k
Net assets
$-28236
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Every Child a Reader Inc does

Mission

Every Child a Reader is committed to administering programs that instill a lifelong love of reading in children. These programs include Children's Book Week, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature program and the Children's Choice Book Awards.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Every Child a Reader is committed to administering programs that instill a lifelong love of reading in children. These programs include Children's Book Week, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature program and the Children's Choice Book Awards.

    $93,855 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,855.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($140k) Expenses 100 ($141k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2018 Revenue 90 ($126k) Expenses 81 ($114k) Net assets 135 ($46k)2019 Revenue 74 ($104k) Expenses 88 ($125k) Net assets 73 ($25k)2020 Revenue 62 ($86k) Expenses 29 ($42k) Net assets 204 ($70k)2021 Revenue 34 ($48k) Expenses 41 ($58k) Net assets 174 ($59k)2022 Revenue 47 ($66k) Expenses 70 ($99k) Net assets 75 ($26k)2023 Revenue 49 ($68k) Expenses 67 ($95k) Net assets -3 ($-1189)2024 Revenue 60 ($83k) Expenses 78 ($110k) Net assets -83 ($-28236)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (78)Net assets (-83)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $32k to $76k (+138%).

$101k
$62k
$32k
$76k
$80k
$84k
$69k
$50k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of EVERY CHILD A READER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$12k
’18
−$21k
’19
$45k
’20
−$10k
’21
−$34k
’22
−$27k
’23
−$27k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Ruth Chamblee

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $48k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 EVERY CHILD A READER INC’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

EVERY CHILD A READER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 EVERY CHILD A READER INC.

48%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 57% — 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

75% of EVERY CHILD A READER INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

52% of EVERY CHILD A READER 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 $143k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from New York funders.

WI
NY
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EVERY CHILD A READER INC's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds EVERY CHILD A READER INC?
EVERY CHILD A READER INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,867 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($141,554). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EVERY CHILD A READER INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $297,867 in grants to EVERY CHILD A READER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EVERY CHILD A READER INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $141,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVERY CHILD A READER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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