New York · Nonprofit
READING TEAM INC
READING TEAM INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,955,634 to it, the largest being The Joseph H Flom Foundation ($275,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $207k
What Reading Team Inc does
Mission
The reading team runs two early literacy programs: (1) preschool - 2x/week (2-hrs/session) teachers instruct 3 and 4 year old children on phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and sound manipulation. (2) after-school - 5x/week (2.5-hrs/session) teachers instruct children in grades k-5 on phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, literary devices, and writing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The reading team preschool program is an intensive and multifaceted early literacy intervention that serves children from neighborhood day care centers and head start programs. This program enables the children we serve to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to reading and writing. It is administered by trained, paid teaching staff called literacy mentors. The reading team after-school program serves children in kindergarten through fifth grade who typically are referred to us by their teachers because they are struggling to keep up in the classroom and sometimes because they have classroom behavior problems as well. The reading team engages the children in a wide range of literacy-nurturing activities that enable them to make significant gains in reading ability their first year in the program. More than 80% of reading team children have historically passed the new york state english language arts exam given starting in 3rd grade (on average in harlem, only 30% of children pass this exam)the after-school program is administered by trained,paid teachers known as literary mentors. The reading team parent programs help parents make better…
$740,783 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $740,783.
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 2022 to 2023, from $463k to $1.1M (+140%).
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.
94% of READING TEAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Carolyn Ellis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $342k → $375k.
12 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TEAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 TEAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
29% 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 TEAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 40% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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
44% of READING TEAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
72% of READING TEAM INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $719k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TEAM INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds READING TEAM INC?
- READING TEAM INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,955,634 to it, the largest being The Joseph H Flom Foundation ($275,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING TEAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,955,634 in grants to READING TEAM INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING TEAM INC?
- The Joseph H Flom Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING TEAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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