Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE READING INSTITUTE INC
THE READING INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & FLORENCE ROBLEE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE READING INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,624 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborativeshared funders
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio match
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of THE READING INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE READING INSTITUTE 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.
Where its funders are
THE READING INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborativeshared fundersMO · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate Great Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ibis Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thompson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rise8 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Costas Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE READING INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE READING INSTITUTE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 READING INSTITUTE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE READING INSTITUTE INC?
- THE READING INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & FLORENCE ROBLEE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE READING INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to THE READING INSTITUTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE READING INSTITUTE INC?
- JOSEPH & FLORENCE ROBLEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE READING INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing