Louisiana · Nonprofit
PRIME TIME FAMILY READING
PRIME TIME FAMILY READING (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE ROSEMARY EWING FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Prime Time Family Reading does
Mission
The mission of Prime Time Family Reading is to create the precondition for future learning among economically and educationally vulnerable families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In september 2016, prime time was selected by the federal office of head start to administer a head start program in ouachita parish, la, serving 505 students. Prime time has transitioned out of ouachita parish as of may 2023. In september 2020, prime time was selected to administer the head start and early head start program for lafayette and iberia parish, la, serving 635 students with a high-quality, comprehensive head start program.
$9,764,568 spent100% of program spendingPrime time directly executes a set of unique, humanities-focused, outcomes-based programs designed to engage underserved children and families. Created in 1991, prime time reading rograms are proven to generate long-term improvements in family engagement and student academic achievement. Prime time programs offer partner sites such as libraries, schools, and other community service agencies research-based initiatives that engage children, parents, teachers, education administrators, and the community at-large in high-quality, family-focused learning experiences. Prime time directly operates across the entire state of louisiana and is licensed across the entire united states.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,764,568.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $5.0M (+101%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 115% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Randy Haynie
Chair - board of directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING’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
PRIME TIME FAMILY READING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2017 100% · 2021 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
100% of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING's grant income comes from Louisiana 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
PRIME TIME FAMILY READING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PRIME TIME FAMILY READING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$97.5M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$570k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PRIME TIME FAMILY READING
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · exempt
- Louisiana Humanities Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRIME TIME FAMILY READING: 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 PRIME TIME FAMILY READING?
- PRIME TIME FAMILY READING (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE ROSEMARY EWING FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIME TIME FAMILY READING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,000 in grants to PRIME TIME FAMILY READING.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING?
- THE ROSEMARY EWING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIME TIME FAMILY READING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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