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Read to Me Stockton

Read to Me Stockton (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,290 to it, the largest being STOCKTON ROTARY ENDOWMENT ($74,110). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$160k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$279k
Net assets
$295k
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Read to Me Stockton does

Mission

To improve literacy in the our community by securing funding to send books to children ages 0 to 5 years old in every zip code in the city Stockton, California

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To improve literacy in the Greater Stockton community by securing funding to send books to children ages 0 to 5 years old in every zip code in the city of Stockton, California

    $160,025 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,025.

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 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($72k)2018 Revenue 93 ($137k) Expenses 141 ($143k) Net assets 91 ($66k)2019 Revenue 129 ($191k) Expenses 190 ($192k) Net assets 89 ($64k)2020 Revenue 130 ($191k) Expenses 204 ($207k) Net assets 67 ($48k)2021 Revenue 207 ($305k) Expenses 153 ($155k) Net assets 277 ($199k)2022 Revenue 87 ($128k) Expenses 92 ($93k) Net assets 326 ($234k)2023 Revenue 75 ($110k) Expenses 64 ($65k) Net assets 388 ($279k)2024 Revenue 112 ($165k) Expenses 146 ($148k) Net assets 412 ($296k)2025 Revenue 108 ($160k) Expenses 158 ($160k) Net assets 411 ($295k)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (158)Net assets (411)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 2020 to 2021, from $48k to $199k (+311%).

$72k
$66k
$64k
$48k
$199k
$234k
$279k
$296k
$295k
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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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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Read to Me Stockton’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$16k
’20
$150k
’21
$35k
’22
$45k
’23
$17k
’24
−$409
’25
15
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $38k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Me Stockton’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 to Me Stockton has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

53% 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 to Me Stockton.

27%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2019 50% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 46% · 2023 66% — 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

50% of Read to Me Stockton's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 to Me Stockton's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
MO
AZ

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 to Me Stockton's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Read to Me Stockton?
Read to Me Stockton (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,290 to it, the largest being STOCKTON ROTARY ENDOWMENT ($74,110). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Read to Me Stockton have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $279,290 in grants to Read to Me Stockton, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Read to Me Stockton?
STOCKTON ROTARY ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $74,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Read to Me Stockton 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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