California · Nonprofit
THE BOOK TRUCK INC
THE BOOK TRUCK INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,463 to it, the largest being Cecile Higginson Murphy Charitable Foundation ($120,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $585k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Book Truck Inc does
Mission
To empower underserved youth and young adults through literature based enrichment programming. The book truck will help these youth and young adults build personal resiliency and become self-motivated learners by connecting them with high interest reading materials and creating communities of readers.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided free books and literacy programing to homeless, foster care, and low-income youth. From july 2025 - june 2026, approximately 8,300 teens participated in our programming and over 14,600 books were given away.
$317,531 spentof which $60,788 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $317,531.
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 2025 to 2026, from $311k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of THE BOOK TRUCK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Elizabeth Dragga
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $25k → $118k.
7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 THE BOOK TRUCK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
THE BOOK TRUCK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 91% · 2019 55% · 2020 38% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 21% — 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
23% of THE BOOK TRUCK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
THE BOOK TRUCK INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE BOOK TRUCK INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like THE BOOK TRUCK 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
75%
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 THE BOOK TRUCK 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 THE BOOK TRUCK INC?
- THE BOOK TRUCK INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,463 to it, the largest being Cecile Higginson Murphy Charitable Foundation ($120,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOOK TRUCK INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $585,463 in grants to THE BOOK TRUCK INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOOK TRUCK INC?
- Cecile Higginson Murphy Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOOK TRUCK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 34 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