Tennessee · Nonprofit
READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY
READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524 to it, the largest being DAVID AND CLAUDIA BABB REICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Reading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County does
Mission
To improve adult literacy and educational opportunities by providing tutoring, reading instruction, workforce readiness support, and educational programs for adults and families in Dickson County and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Reading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County provides adult literacy, ESL, and high school equivalency instruction through trained volunteer tutors. The organization offers individualized and small-group instruction to adults seeking to improve reading, writing, and English language skills, as well as prepare for high school equivalency completion. Instruction is tailored to each learner's goals, creating a supportive and flexible learning environment that promotes educational achievement and increased independence. In 2025, READ served 31 adult learners, including 14 English language learners (ESL). Eighty-one percent (81%) of participants achieved at least one personal or academic goal, demonstrating measurable progress in literacy, confidence, communication, and daily functioning. Four students earned their high school equivalency diploma. Many participants also reported greater confidence navigating everyday tasks. This work was made possible through the service of 28 volunteer tutors. READ also engages in community outreach through partnerships, local events, and targeted awareness efforts to identify adults in need of literacy services and recruit volunteer tutors. These…
$22,627 spent91% of program spendingReading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County provides financial literacy and job readiness programming designed to help adults build practical life and employment skills. Financial literacy classes focused on budgeting, banking, credit awareness, and money management. Job readiness programming included instruction in workplace communication, resume development, interview preparation, and employment-related skills. In 2025, 73 adults completed financial literacy classes, and 8 adults completed job skills training. These programs helped participants increase their confidence, strengthen their decision-making skills, and improve their preparedness for employment and financial stability.
$2,170 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,797.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $27k (+195%).
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 READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Susan Hasley
Executive Director
Board chair
Melissa Duke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $24.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY’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
READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24 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.
Against its field
READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin 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 READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY: 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 READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY?
- READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524 to it, the largest being DAVID AND CLAUDIA BABB REICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,524 in grants to READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY?
- DAVID AND CLAUDIA BABB REICH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING EMPOWERMENT FOR ADULTS IN DICKSON COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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