Florida · Nonprofit
SING OUT AND READ INC
SING OUT AND READ INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,290 to it, the largest being HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($360,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $810k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Sing Out and Read Inc does
Mission
To improve literacy levels by helping students advance to their appropriate grade level using singing as a critical part of the learning process.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sing out and read (soar) continued its mission in 2025 to improve literacy outcomes for struggling young readers through its innovative, evidence-based reading intervention that combines music, technology, and family engagement. The organization's flagship soar program provides qualifying elementary-aged children with a tablet preloaded with proprietary sing-to-read software, a headset with microphone, internet connectivity as needed, individualized coaching, and ongoing family support at no cost to participating families.(continued on schedule o)the soar program is designed to help children who are reading below grade level develop fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and reading confidence through structured, music-based instruction. Students participate in a 12-week program requiring approximately 90 minutes of weekly practice, while trained soar coaches monitor participation, encourage families, recognize milestones, and provide accountability to help students complete the program successfully.during 2025, sing out and read served approximately 30 cohorts, serving 511 children and their families through the soar program throughout pinellas and hillsborough counties. The…
$712,013 spent$31,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $712,013.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $136k to $61k (−55%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SING OUT AND READ INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Jay Graham
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $120k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 SING OUT AND READ 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
SING OUT AND READ INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 SING OUT AND READ INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 33% · 2023 42% — 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
20% of SING OUT AND READ INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
92% of SING OUT AND READ INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k 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.
Against its field
SING OUT AND READ INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SING OUT AND READ 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 SING OUT AND READ 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 SING OUT AND READ INC?
- SING OUT AND READ INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,290 to it, the largest being HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($360,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SING OUT AND READ INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $730,290 in grants to SING OUT AND READ INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SING OUT AND READ INC?
- HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SING OUT AND READ INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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