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PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM
PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM (Washington) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,424,414 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($443,462). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $539k
What Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm does
Mission
Page Ahead works to increase the reading achievement of students from low-income communities in Washington. Starting with improving book access in the home, Page Ahead provides reading interventions that support children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Book Up Summer: Every summer, while students from affluent families make progress on their reading skills, students from low-income families lose ground. The effects of summer learning loss are cumulative, and its compounding impact is responsible for much of the reading achievement gap. Book Up Summer addresses this problem, reaching approximately 23,638 students in kindergarten through second grade from high-poverty elementary schools, and giving them 12 books each to read during summer vacation. Giving children their choice of books furnishes them with the resources and incentive necessary to read during the summer, avoid the summer learning loss phenomenon, and ultimately helping to narrow the achievement gap.
$1,122,681 spentof which $954,210 as grants$164,360 earned by the program81% of program spendingStory Leaders: Over the course of a year, low-income children hear 8 million fewer words than children from affluent families. Story Leaders aims to close this word gap by facilitating literacy training and access to books for families whose children could gain the most from the program. Page Ahead partners with ECEAP and Head Start classrooms to provide early literacy training for teachers, new books for children, and home reading support for families. During the 2024-25 school year, 1,739 students received nearly 15,070 new books.
$111,451 spentof which $57,429 as grants$12,131 earned by the program8% of program spendingBooks for Kids: Providing access to books for children in need is a proven way to increase the amount of time they spend reading. Page Ahead's original flagship program, Books for Kids, reached 2,153 children in need with 2,700 new, high-quality, age-appropriate books in 2024-25. To efficiently reach the children most in need, Page Ahead collaborates with preschools, elementary schools, and social service agencies across Washington State. Page Ahead provides a wide variety of books through fun, motivational reading events. Empowering children to make their own choices ensures that each child has reading material suited to their individual interest.
$80,139 spentof which $16,991 as grants6% of program spendingBook Oasis: In high-income communities, there are about 13 books for every child; in high-poverty communities, there is one book for every 300 children. These neighborhoods are considered book deserts, and the children who live in them have a much harder time accessing the appropriate reading material they need to become strong readers. Book Oasis builds and places specially designed little free libraries in neighborhood book deserts and stocks them with great new children's books for kids to access freely. Volunteers monitor each oasis and restock them monthly. In 2024-2025, Page Ahead volunteers stocked 19 Book Oasis libraries with 6,311 new children's books through the program.
$24,931 spentof which $20,423 as grants2% of program spendingStory Times: Trained volunteers bring reading fun and inspiration to preschool and kindergarten age children in the Puget Sound area and Spokane.
$27,644 spent2% of program spendingVolunteer Services: Page Ahead volunteers conduct book drives, read with children, and sort and pack books for program sites.
$20,933 spent2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,387,779.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $998k to $621k (−38%).
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: 2017 10% · 2018 10% · 2019 0% · 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2023 17% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Susan Dibble
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $104k → $373k.
15 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. 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
PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
51% 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 PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 32% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% — 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
47% of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
63% of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $945k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM?
- PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM (Washington) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,424,414 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($443,462). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $2,424,414 in grants to PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $443,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 80 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