Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Reading Ready Pittsburgh
Reading Ready Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,301 to it, the largest being POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ($250,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Reading Ready Pittsburgh does
Mission
Supporting healthy development of young children by increasing access to books and by encouraging significant family engagement through reading,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: Partnering with the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Reading Ready Pittsburgh contracts for books to be mailed to over 8,000 children's homes each month. These books are intended to support the healthy development of young children by increasing access to books and by encouraging significant family engagement through reading.
$271,524 spent39% of program spendingRaising a Reader: This is a book bag rotation program. The classic red Book Bag program supports families in developing shared reading routines that build early literacy skills and foster a love of books. This book bag rotation program is provided to over 1600 children through a variety of early childhood education professionals including Home Visitors, Head Starts, Early Head Starts, Private Childcare Centers and Elementary Schools.
$237,427 spent$14,913 earned by the program34% of program spendingB is for Books:This is a 100% free bookstore for children and families. The bookstore also doubles as a resource for early childhood educators and parents to access high quality reading materials for the families in their care and as an educational support where workshops/trainings are provided. B is for Books is open to the public 5 days each week. Each child visiting can take home 3 free books. Fun community outreach events occur on a monthly basis.
$91,608 spent$140,865 earned by the program13% of program spendingCommunity Engagement and Outreach:Reading Ready Pittsburgh loves to work directly and creatively in their local communities. Reading Ready Pittsburgh is often tabling at a variety of community events and at partner's events. They also work with the family centers and pediatricians around the Mon Valley and provide them books and resources of all kinds like early literacy posters, stickers with helpful hints for parents, and literature highlighting the importance of early literacy.
$45,751 spent7% of program spendingVarious Other Programs: These include Read With Me (Summer)and Give Away Books among others.
$42,249 spent$2,841 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $688,559.
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 $378k to $1.1M (+191%).
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.
89% of Reading Ready Pittsburgh’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $12k → $330k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Ready Pittsburgh’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 Ready Pittsburgh has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
31% 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 Reading Ready Pittsburgh.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of Reading Ready Pittsburgh's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
94% of Reading Ready Pittsburgh's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Reading Ready Pittsburgh runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Reading Ready Pittsburgh
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Reading Ready Pittsburgh: 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 Ready Pittsburgh?
- Reading Ready Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,301 to it, the largest being POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ($250,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Reading Ready Pittsburgh have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,395,301 in grants to Reading Ready Pittsburgh, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Reading Ready Pittsburgh?
- POSNER FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Reading Ready Pittsburgh find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing