Massachusetts · Nonprofit
REACH OUT AND READ INC
REACH OUT AND READ INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 432 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,071,272 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,444,867). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 432
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Reach Out and Read Inc does
Mission
To give young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Reach out and read is the only national early literacy organization working directly with pediatric care providers to incorporate the promotion of reading aloud to children every day. Reach out and read's mission is to give young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. Reading aloud to young children is one core strategy for promoting healthy relationships and positive interactions early in life. The program begins in infancy and continues through age 5, with a special emphasis on children growing up in low-income communities.pediatricians and other pediatric clinicians who are involved in the organization share brand-new, age- and language-appropriate books and literacy advice with children and parents at each well-child visit up to the age of 5. The effectiveness of the organization's model is recognized by the american academy of pediatrics in a policy statement that recommends early literacy promotion as an essential component of pediatric care. The program is both cost-effective and evidence-based: research shows that the program results in more frequent reading at home, accelerated…
$22,090,349 spentof which $9,747,320 as grants$314,938 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,090,349.
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 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $25M (+70%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 19% · 2024 22% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of REACH OUT AND READ INC’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. 3 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
Trude Haecker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 68 funders to 155 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $15M.
75 of 432 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 REACH OUT AND READ INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 432 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
REACH OUT AND READ INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
56% 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 REACH OUT AND READ INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of REACH OUT AND READ INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
REACH OUT AND READ INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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
REACH OUT AND READ INC has grown faster 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 REACH OUT AND READ INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.2M on record — $764k federal, $12.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$554k
- Department of the Interior$210k
- MA$10.7M
- CT$966k
- OR$447k
- NJ$340k
- DE$29k
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 REACH OUT AND 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REACH OUT AND 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 REACH OUT AND READ INC?
- REACH OUT AND READ INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 432 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,071,272 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,444,867). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REACH OUT AND READ INC have?
- IRS filings report 432 organizations giving $53,071,272 in grants to REACH OUT AND READ INC, 231 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REACH OUT AND READ INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,444,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REACH OUT AND READ INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 432 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