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READ Lakeland Inc

READ Lakeland Inc (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,255 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($44,630). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$93k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$101k
Net assets
$55k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What READ Lakeland Inc does

Mission

Read lakeland, inc is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to teaching basic literacy skills that include reading, writing, math, and english language skills to adults who are low literate or speakers of other languages. Established in 1995 by volunteers as a community based organization organization to promote adult literacy, read lakeland has provided one-on-one and small group tutoring services to hundreds of adults in lakeland and surrounding areas. Read lakeland is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the community through teaching basic literacy skills to adult nonreaders and promoting adult and family literacy.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2018 Revenue 58 ($26k) Expenses 109 ($53k) Net assets 56 ($30k)2019 Revenue 98 ($44k) Expenses 98 ($48k) Net assets 36 ($20k)2020 Revenue 102 ($45k) Expenses 97 ($48k) Net assets 32 ($17k)2021 Revenue 75 ($33k) Expenses 86 ($42k) Net assets 15 ($8k)2022 Revenue 87 ($38k) Expenses 82 ($40k) Net assets 12 ($7k)2023 Revenue 96 ($43k) Expenses 80 ($39k) Net assets 18 ($10k)2024 Revenue 125 ($56k) Expenses 93 ($46k) Net assets 37 ($20k)2025 Revenue 121 ($53k) Expenses 97 ($48k) Net assets 48 ($26k)2026 Revenue 210 ($93k) Expenses 132 ($65k) Net assets 101 ($55k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (132)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $49k to $79k (+59%).

$56k
$32k
$23k
$19k
$37k
$37k
$40k
$44k
$49k
$79k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of READ Lakeland Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$28k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$2k
’20
−$9k
’21
−$2k
’22
$3k
’23
$10k
’24
$6k
’25
$29k
’26

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Beth Hesseltine

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $14k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Lakeland Inc’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 Lakeland Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 Lakeland Inc.

44%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 100% · 2023 47% — 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

33% of READ Lakeland Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

READ Lakeland Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.

OH
DE
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

READ Lakeland Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Organizations like READ Lakeland 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds READ Lakeland Inc?
READ Lakeland Inc (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,255 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($44,630). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does READ Lakeland Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $101,255 in grants to READ Lakeland Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of READ Lakeland Inc?
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like READ Lakeland Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 11 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