Michigan · Nonprofit
WE SHALL READ
WE SHALL READ (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,211,830 to it, the largest being PATHWAYS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $408k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $417k
What We Shall Read does
Mission
To train and mentor teachers, tutors, and parents in brain friendly instructional strategies that improve childrens reading, spelliing, and writing regardless of their age, ability, or background. Wsr is creating sustainable change - one educator, one child, and one community at a time.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We equipped 140 educators with between 12 to 30 hours of college-level professional development in reading intervention grounded in the Science of Reading. Through hands-on training in the Brain Friendly Reading program, teachers strengthened their ability to deliver explicit, systematic instruction that aligns with how the brain learns to read. Designed to be both high-impact and low-preparation, the program removes barriers to implementation and is reinforced through ongoing weekly live group coaching, ensuring that training translates into classroom practice and improved student outcomes. Beyond these intensive courses, more than 225 educators and parents participated in live virtual trainings on topics including foundational literacy skills and dyslexia. Our Tools in 10! bite-size training on YouTube allows all workshop participants to extend their learning on their time.
$211,201 spent88% of program spendingThrough our partnership with the Detroit River Conservancy, we taught over 1,400 parents and children how to use several high-impact reading activities during their 6-week Reading & Rhythm program as well as their 1-day Detroit Sports Youth Showcase. We continued the impact throughout SE Michigan by providing 420 children and families high impact reading materials and games at the Dearborn Summer Markets, connecting families to free, ongoing resources. These outreach activities led people to download thousands of dollars worth of free materials from the website and attend over a dozen on-line and in-person parent workshops.
$19,320 spent8% of program spendingInstruction also continued at Freedom House in Detroit, where we provided 20 weeks of consistent literacy instruction to adult immigrants strengthening their English language skills. In that classroom, literacy is more than an academic goal-it is a pathway to employment, independence, and fuller participation in community life.
$8,700 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $239,221.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $228k to $377k (+65%).
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.
84% of WE SHALL READ’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. 0 of the last 4 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
Kristin Dwyer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $475k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WE SHALL READ’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
WE SHALL READ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of WE SHALL READ's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WE SHALL READ has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WE SHALL 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE SHALL READ: 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 WE SHALL READ?
- WE SHALL READ (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,211,830 to it, the largest being PATHWAYS FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE SHALL READ have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,211,830 in grants to WE SHALL READ, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE SHALL READ?
- PATHWAYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE SHALL READ find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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