Ohio · Nonprofit
ReadAloudorg
ReadAloudorg (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,916,005 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,906,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $623k
What ReadAloudorg does
Mission
Read Aloud 15 MINUTES' mission is to increase child readiness for school and educate parents by teaching them why reading aloud for at least 15 minutes every day, beginning at birth, matters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign continues to successfully focus on three pillars of activity.1. Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Awareness Campaign. The awareness campaign has been the focus of ReadAloud.org since 2012. The Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign goal is for 250 million Americans to recognize the need to read aloud 15 minutes every day, beginning at birth, ensuring that all American children are kindergarten-ready by age 5. We reached thousands of Americans this year with a very strong focus on public awareness events in South Carolina as follows:Participated in all day carnivals at Beyond Our Walls and Windwood Farm engaging all participants to read aloud from birth. Conducted weekly read-alout sessions for pre-K and kindergarten students at Charleston Development Academy and for members of Reading Buddies at Windwood Farm Boys Home.Read aloud to children at Beyond Our Walls' 6-week summer camp and holiday events, gifting books at every session.Partnered with Charleston Friends of the Library to receive, categorize and distribute books to underserved children; in 2025, at least 5,000 like-new books were gifted.Regularly distributed books to Little Free…
$268,671 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,671.
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 2021 to 2022, from $719k to $1.2M (+68%).
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.
44% of ReadAloudorg’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. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $253k → $5.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ReadAloudorg’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
ReadAloudorg leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ReadAloudorg.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 ReadAloudorg's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
ReadAloudorg has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ReadAloudorg
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ReadAloudorg: 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 ReadAloudorg?
- ReadAloudorg (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,916,005 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,906,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ReadAloudorg have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,916,005 in grants to ReadAloudorg, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ReadAloudorg?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,906,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ReadAloudorg find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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