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EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC

EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,334 to it, the largest being WAYNE COUNTY INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ($257,374). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$173k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$653k
Net assets
$329k
11/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Every Child Can Read Inc does

Mission

Opening a world of opportunities by growing a love of reading in young readers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The reading academy is a year-round after school and summer literacy tutoring program. The academy's goal is for all students to read at grade level by the end of third grade. Research shows that students who reach this benchmark are four times more likely to graduate high school and have a successful educational experience. Academy services focus on students, kindergarten to third grade, who are struggling to reach their reading benchmarks or are at risk of not reading at grade level by the end of third grade.

    $113,104 spent
    69% of program spending
  2. K ready is an early childhood program designed to provide the resources and tools to help caregivers prepare their children for kindergarten. Research shows that primary indicators of kindergarten readiness are having access to books and being read to at least 20 minutes a day. Eccr provided several programs in 2024 that focused on these two indicators. 2024 was eccr's 10th year as the county affiliate for dolly parton's imagination library. 58% of elgibile 0-5 year olds in wayne county were enrolled in this monthly book program. As the local affiliate, eccr pays approximately $30 a year per child enrolled in the imagination library. Eccr also partnered with local doctor offices, childcare providers, early learning programs, schools and families to help grow home libraries and prepare children for kindergarten. Eccr encouraged and supported summer reading with the little red summer bookmobile. During the summer of 2024, eccr visited 16 sites at least once in june and july distributing well over one thousand books.

    $49,828 spent
    31% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,932.

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 ($211k) Expenses 100 ($193k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2018 Revenue 101 ($214k) Expenses 109 ($211k) Net assets 103 ($101k)2019 Revenue 119 ($252k) Expenses 121 ($235k) Net assets 121 ($119k)2020 Revenue 91 ($192k) Expenses 79 ($153k) Net assets 160 ($158k)2021 Revenue 188 ($398k) Expenses 148 ($286k) Net assets 274 ($269k)2022 Revenue 232 ($489k) Expenses 206 ($399k) Net assets 365 ($359k)2023 Revenue 157 ($330k) Expenses 185 ($357k) Net assets 339 ($333k)2024 Revenue 82 ($173k) Expenses 91 ($177k) Net assets 335 ($329k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (91)Net assets (335)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 2021 to 2022, from $270k to $360k (+34%).

$99k
$102k
$119k
$180k
$270k
$360k
$334k
$331k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$3k
’18
$17k
’19
$39k
’20
$111k
’21
$90k
’22
−$26k
’23
−$4k
’24
23
months of
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

Patricia Peterson

Executive director

Board chair

Jason Blunk

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1214141415161518
Joined·+4+0+6+1+3+1+4
No longer listed·2060221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $51k → $56k.

3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 CAN READ 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 CAN READ INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

63% 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 CAN READ INC.

39%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 60% · 2019 74% · 2020 32% · 2021 59% · 2022 55% · 2023 60% — 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

67% of EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

95% of EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MN
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IN
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TX

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve22.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC?
EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,334 to it, the largest being WAYNE COUNTY INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ($257,374). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $653,334 in grants to EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC?
WAYNE COUNTY INDIANA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $257,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 17 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