Illinois · Nonprofit
READING IN MOTION
READING IN MOTION (Illinois) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,298,737 to it, the largest being HEINEMAN FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL ($720,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
READING IN MOTION receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared funders
- First Bookportfolio match
- The Lincoln Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 19% · 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of READING IN MOTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $582k → $389k.
11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 IN MOTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
READING IN MOTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 23% · 2019 34% · 2020 21% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 15% — 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
36% of READING IN MOTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
56% of READING IN MOTION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 54 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Frankel Julius N Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- First Bookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lincoln Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Improving Non-Profits for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crowell & Moring Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rose M Badgeley Charitable Trust 10-214890portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph H Flom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hollyhock Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hammel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H and H Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding READING IN MOTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like READING IN MOTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 READING IN MOTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds READING IN MOTION?
- READING IN MOTION (Illinois) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,298,737 to it, the largest being HEINEMAN FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL ($720,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING IN MOTION have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $4,298,737 in grants to READING IN MOTION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING IN MOTION?
- HEINEMAN FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING IN MOTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 54funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing