Nevada · Nonprofit
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,949,568 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,485,818). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Spread the Word Nevada does
Mission
Provide books to at risk children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kids to kids, our flagship program, reaches out to at-risk children (pre-k through 5th grade) in low income areas by providing them with new and gently used books to develop their very own "keep at home" library of books to learn from and share with their families. The program objective is to enhance the reading abilities of and instill a deep appreciation for reading during the formative stages of the at-risk student population.
$4,876,031 spent78% of program spendingBooks & buddies is our reading mentorship program which partners our volunteers from businesses and our community with the children attending our at-risk elementary schools. Volunteers partner individually with students to focus on further developing the child's reading proficiency, comprehension, and verbal recitation skills. This program provides children with valuable one-on-one tutoring that is not available in the classroom or in the home.
$492,997 spent8% of program spendingOur family literacy program helps instill the importance of reading with the children in partnership with their families. Bi-monthly, students and their parents, grandparents, guardians, and siblings are invited to share in a light snack and story reading at elementary schools we serve. Every family who attends receives a brand-new copy of the book of the month for their family to share, and a simple outlined literacy expansion activity to take home and implement which reinforces the concepts presented during the program. In addition, every person who attends receives a book of their choice to take home and continue to build their home library.
$302,926 spent5% of program spendingReaders in training is a literacy-based program for children ages 0-5 years. It is designed to assist families in preparing children for preschool and kindergarten. Families who participate receive one new age- appropriate book mailed directly to their homes monthly, access to online content that specifically targets school readiness skills and helps families practice these skills in the home, and the opportunity to participate in quarterly in-person playgroups that will allow children practice school readiness skills in a classroom type setting.
$559,186 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,231,140.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $12M (+291%).
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 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 17% · 2024 14% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Habighorst
CEO
Board chair
Chad Leavitt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $451k → $512k.
14 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
62% 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 SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA'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 $5.2M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M 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
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA
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 Nevada
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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA?
- SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,949,568 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,485,818). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $11,949,568 in grants to SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,485,818 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 82 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