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REALITY SPEAKING INC

REALITY SPEAKING INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,617 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($131,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$405k
Net assets
$141k
7/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Reality Speaking Inc does

Mission

The reuniting family bail fund is a volunteer - supported group of advocates that aims to mitigate the harms of the criminal legal system in Montgomery County, PA.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Reality Speaking Inc delivers advocacy and support services to individuals impacted by the criminal legal system, including assistance addressing barriers to pretrial release, community outreach, and policy advocacy aimed at reducing the harmful effects of incarceration and promoting equitable outcomes.

    $96,488 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,488.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($125k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($110k)2021 Revenue 44 ($55k) Expenses 466 ($69k) Net assets 87 ($96k)2022 Revenue 144 ($180k) Expenses 1355 ($201k) Net assets 69 ($76k)2023 Revenue 44 ($55k) Expenses 718 ($106k) Net assets 22 ($24k)2024 Revenue 57 ($71k) Expenses 679 ($101k) Net assets 151 ($167k)2025 Revenue 57 ($71k) Expenses 650 ($96k) Net assets 128 ($141k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (57)Expenses (650)Net assets (128)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $27k to $167k (+511%).

$110k
$96k
$79k
$27k
$167k
$148k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of REALITY SPEAKING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$110k
’20
−$14k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$52k
’23
−$30k
’24
−$25k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Heather Lewis

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $105k → $50k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 REALITY SPEAKING INC’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

REALITY SPEAKING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

85% 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 REALITY SPEAKING INC.

32%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 33% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% — 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

60% of REALITY SPEAKING INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

63% of REALITY SPEAKING INC'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 $151k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.

NY
PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REALITY SPEAKING INC's revenue fell 43% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like REALITY SPEAKING INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REALITY SPEAKING INC: 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 REALITY SPEAKING INC?
REALITY SPEAKING INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,617 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($131,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REALITY SPEAKING INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $404,617 in grants to REALITY SPEAKING INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REALITY SPEAKING INC?
TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $131,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REALITY SPEAKING INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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