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Team Read

Team Read (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,251,577 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($417,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$768k
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$1.8M
33/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Team Read does

Mission

Year-round, one-to-one tutoring program provided at Title 1 schools to students not at grade-level proficiency in reading. Tutors are area teens recruited and trained to deliver reading support.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Team Read's mission is: "Team Read propels students to become inspired, joyful readers and teens to become impactful leaders, ready to succeed in school and life, building stronger communities for all." In alignment with this mission, students in grades 8 through 12 serve as reading coaches (tutors) to 2nd and 3rd-grade students (4th grade in some schools) who are reading at least one year below grade level. This dual-impact model helps students reading below grade level become confident readers and helps teens develop work and life skills. This year, Team Read strengthened both program fidelity and responsiveness to site-level needs through targeted improvements to curriculum, logistics, and staff support. All districts implemented a consistent curriculum that included Word Work and phonics packets to reinforce foundational reading skills. Updates to the Power Reader Journal and the integration of monthly themes further enhanced instructional alignment and student engagement. Site Coordinators were supported through structured training, regular check-ins, and new tools like observation notebooks, which promoted quality implementation. Reading Coaches benefited from more flexible…

    $527,446 spentof which $160,640 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $527,446.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($616k) Expenses 100 ($616k) Net assets 100 ($477k)2018 Revenue 112 ($690k) Expenses 129 ($798k) Net assets 77 ($368k)2019 Revenue 99 ($613k) Expenses 106 ($653k) Net assets 69 ($329k)2020 Revenue 120 ($738k) Expenses 94 ($582k) Net assets 103 ($490k)2021 Revenue 165 ($1.0M) Expenses 107 ($657k) Net assets 178 ($849k)2022 Revenue 225 ($1.4M) Expenses 121 ($749k) Net assets 312 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 182 ($1.1M) Expenses 116 ($714k) Net assets 398 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 125 ($768k) Expenses 143 ($880k) Net assets 379 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (143)Net assets (379)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+53%).

$609k
$478k
$490k
$615k
$1.0M
$1.6M
$2.0M
$1.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 9% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 39% · 2022 29% · 2023 37% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Team Read’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$73
’17
−$108k
’18
−$40k
’19
$156k
’20
$358k
’21
$636k
’22
$405k
’23
−$112k
’24
16
months of
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

Ebony Pattenaude

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1919192121151818
Joined·+7+4+8+6+2+5+5
No longer listed·7466825
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $181k → $507k.

8 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Team Read’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

Team Read has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

50% 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 Team Read.

13%
largest funder
29%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 25% — 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

47% of Team Read's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Team Read's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CA
NE
KY
DE
NC
GA
FL

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

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Team Read holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Team Read

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 Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 14%Fundraising 24%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Team Read?
Team Read (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,251,577 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($417,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Team Read have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,251,577 in grants to Team Read, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Team Read?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $417,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Team Read find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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