Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JOYFUL READERS INC
JOYFUL READERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,341,718 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($719,916). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOYFUL READERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared funders
- First Bookportfolio match
- The McCormick Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 51% · 2024 33% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of JOYFUL READERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $316 → $310k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 JOYFUL READERS 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
JOYFUL READERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of JOYFUL READERS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- First Bookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The McCormick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Treasure Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rise8 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johnson-Weaver Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J A Unruh Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overdeck Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dow Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ecmc Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like JOYFUL READERS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOYFUL READERS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOYFUL READERS INC?
- JOYFUL READERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,341,718 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($719,916). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOYFUL READERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,341,718 in grants to JOYFUL READERS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOYFUL READERS INC?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $719,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOYFUL READERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing