Florida · Nonprofit
NEED TO READ INC
NEED TO READ INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,500 to it, the largest being UNIVERSAL ORLANDO FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $224k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Need to Read Inc does
Mission
To help children age infant to five years old enhance pre-reading and literacy skills while combating childhood low literacy. Our organisation provide families with resources that are lacking in their communities to foster literacy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
N2rs pilot programme has laid the foundation for establishing a community wide and eventually a nation wide prereading program to combat low literacy among small children. (grants $0)
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $61k to $159k (+162%).
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.
97% of NEED TO READ INC’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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Roderick Zak
Chairman [:amp:] CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of NEED TO 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
NEED TO READ INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 NEED TO READ INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of NEED TO READ INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NEED TO READ INC has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like NEED TO READ 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEED TO READ 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 NEED TO READ INC?
- NEED TO READ INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,500 to it, the largest being UNIVERSAL ORLANDO FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEED TO READ INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $223,500 in grants to NEED TO READ INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEED TO READ INC?
- UNIVERSAL ORLANDO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEED TO READ 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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