Minnesota · Nonprofit
READERWRITER
READERWRITER (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,007 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($538,497). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $576k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Readerwriter does
Mission
Reader/writer's purpose is to provide individual literacy support for about 300 middle school students in minneapolis and st. Paul minnesota throughout each school year.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We expanded the number of schools we provide academic support for in fall of 2023. We now serve three schools (which are widely diverse from one another) and provide writing mentors for all of the students of four teachers, two of them new to us and the profession. Given the latter, we also are mentoring these 'newbie's, especially since they work in a difficult school setting.numbers of students we work with increased to 320 as did number of volunteers. About 200 volunteers, mostly from the field of law and juvenile justice, read, edited and carefully responded to over 2,200 essays. During 2023 we continued to provide snacks for "the writers' caf" for a teacher's special education classroom. In addition, we raised money for significant cash writing rewards for 6 eighth grade classes who were challenged to write consistently and well for their readers. An article about reader/writer was included during 2023 in the hennepin lawyer, a quarterly magazine for hennepin county lawyers and judges. From that we received many new and exceptionally qualified volunteer readers.
$62,823 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,823.
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 2020 to 2021, from $27k to $120k (+352%).
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.
100% of READERWRITER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lia Venchi
Executive director
Board chair
Heidi Silton
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $60k → $110k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 READERWRITER’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
READERWRITER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
93% 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 READERWRITER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of READERWRITER'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. Of the $38k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $539k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
READERWRITER has grown faster than half of the 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like READERWRITER
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 READERWRITER: 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 READERWRITER?
- READERWRITER (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,007 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($538,497). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does READERWRITER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $576,007 in grants to READERWRITER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READERWRITER?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $538,497 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READERWRITER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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