New York · Nonprofit
READ TO LEAD INC
READ TO LEAD INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600,081 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($2,800,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $0
What Read to Lead Inc does
Mission
The organization ceased operations as of december 31, 2022. Prior to their closure, read to lead helped students in high-poverty communities build literacy and leadership skills.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Curriculum & resources for educators: read to lead, inc. Creates digital learning games and curriculum set in the professional world that foster students' literacy and leadership skills and connect school to life in the workplace. Our suite of literacy learning games, the read to lead series, helps students develop advanced literacy skills, increases career readiness, and builds 21st century skills such as persistence and decision-making. The learning games, curriculum, along with professional development resources for educators are freely accessible online for both school day and out-of-school time use.through its digital platform, read to lead, inc. Reaches educators and students nationwide. Any educator can register for free and have access to read to lead, inc.'s learning games and curriculum.
$1,041,948 spent$30,000 earned by the program44% of program spendingDirect support to partners: read to lead, inc. Partners with schools and community-based organizations in high-poverty communities across the united states to provide turn-key curriculum and resources, along with unique workplace literacy learning game experiences, to support school day and out-of-school time learning and engagement.in addition, to improve student outcome read to lead, inc. Offers educators in-person and virtual coaching support and transforms the way educators use project-based and personalized learning tools. Some of read to lead, inc.'s school partner sites also serve as our "learning labs," informing our digital production and ensuring that we are always designing from real-life experience.
$1,033,321 spent43% of program spendingResearch and assessment: read to lead, inc. Conducts research to assess the impact of its programs on students and to provide regular feedback that enables continuous improvement. Both internal and external evaluations have consistently shown that our programs effectively improve students' literacy, reading attitudes and behaviors, 21st century skills, and college - and career-readiness.
$306,438 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,381,707.
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 $3.9M to $0 (−100%).
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 5% · 2020 0% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Lewis W Bernard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $690k → $3k.
8 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 TO LEAD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 TO LEAD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 49% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of READ TO LEAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
52% of READ TO LEAD INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like READ TO LEAD 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READ TO LEAD 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 READ TO LEAD INC?
- READ TO LEAD INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600,081 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($2,800,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READ TO LEAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $10,600,081 in grants to READ TO LEAD INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READ TO LEAD INC?
- NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READ TO LEAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 62 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