California · Nonprofit
READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,288 to it, the largest being BERNARD E & ALBA WITKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $315k
What Read-Aloud Volunteer Program does
Mission
To recruit & place adult volunteers into inner-city public schools to read aloud one-on-one with children.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
School Year: Read-Aloud Volunteer Program matches volunteers to read 1:1 with K-2 students weekly; kids also receive free books of their choosing. We operate in West Contra Costa County CA. This is a relationship based program designed to support young childrens curiosity & joy in learning. A volunteer meets weekly with the same child to read with and listens to their questions comments on the reading. Deep friendships are formed and the child has the opportunity to discover the joys of reading & the love of books. Teachers select children to participate in the program choosing those they think will benefit most from this individual attention 1:1 reading & exposure to books. Teachers end of year evals demonstrate that children thrive in the program. Read-Aloud is based on the SMART Program in Oregon. The 2022-23 school year was conducted in person contributing 1500+ reading & prep hours by 40+ vols & provided 2180 books directly to the kids 118 reg 65 subs; & 100 for schools
$69,636 spentof which $3,500 as grants98% of program spendingOutreach: Read-Aloud holds booths at local events to give away books reading tips and related materials. We also have a Little Free Library which we keep stocked with books to give away. In 2023 Read-Aloud attended 4 street-type fairs giving away 625 books to children and families stocked the Little Free Library with 966 books and gave 260 books to a local elementary schools were not involved with for a literacy fair.
$1,513 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,149.
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 2017 to 2018, from $132k to $189k (+43%).
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.
32% of READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $7k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 VOLUNTEER PROGRAM’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
READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 VOLUNTEER PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 89% · 2019 85% · 2020 53% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: 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 READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM?
- READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,288 to it, the largest being BERNARD E & ALBA WITKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $76,288 in grants to READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM?
- BERNARD E & ALBA WITKIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READ-ALOUD VOLUNTEER PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 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