Delaware · Nonprofit
READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC
READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,790 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($267,442). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $660k
- Net assets
- $524k
What Read-Aloud Delaware Inc does
Mission
Read aloud delaware is a statewide non-profit that promotes literacy by working to ensure that each preschool child in delaware is regularly read to one-on-one, and by educating caregivers on the importance of early talk.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Read aloud delaware, inc. Promotes and carries out programs aimed at ensuring preschool children have someone to read to them on a regular basis. Read aloud partners with 88 childcare centers, 2 clinics and 2 prisons. In the past year, 500 volunteers conducted approximately 70,000 individual reading sessions for delaware's children.
$335,510 spent$10,750 earned by the program90% of program spendingLena start is a program implemented by read aloud delaware, inc. Theprogram consists of 10 weekly, one-hour sessions and uses regularfeedback from lena's core "talk pedometer" to improve talk in the home.the wearable pedometer lets parents know how much they're talking andhow many back-and-forth interactions they are having with theirchildren. Over the 10-week program, parents learn about the importanceof interactive talk along with ways to incorporate more talk into theirdaily routines. Lena start helps parents improve communication in thehome, and is giving them the tools to close gaps in key skill sets thatinclude reading, comprehension, and language development. The lenastart program impacted nearly 100 families during fiscal year 2025.
$38,002 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,512.
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.
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 $320k to $443k (+39%).
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 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 58% · 2023 50% · 2024 50% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
James Spadola
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $169k → $91k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 55% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 47% · 2022 39% · 2023 81% — 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
31% of READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
88% of READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$1.2M
- INSTR SUPPORT SERVICES$3k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$3k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$1k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$327
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$300
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 READ-ALOUD DELAWARE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC?
- READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,790 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($267,442). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $659,790 in grants to READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $267,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 21 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