Grants for remedial reading organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to remedial and developmental reading organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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615 remedial and developmental reading organizations received at least $40.1 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,494 grants made from 1,082 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 1,082 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to reading support orgs, and 3% made grants to four or more reading support orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$40,114,994

Total grant dollars given to remedial reading organizations

1,494

Number of grants made annually to remedial reading organizations

1,082

Number of grantmakers funding remedial reading organizations

$1,500

Median grant size to remedial reading organizations

Foundations that support remedial and developmental reading organizations

Out of all grants made to remedial reading organizations, 76% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 92% of the dollar-value of grants to reading support orgs. Foundations funding reading support orgs also made grants to food banks, youth development programs, homeless shelters, multiservice human service organizations, and universities.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	830
Medium	136
Large	116

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	36
Private	903
Corporate	73
Other	70

Grants made

Grants made to reading support orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	934
2-3	115
4-10	22
11+	11

Top 10 foundations supporting remedial and developmental reading organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to reading support orgs	Number of grants made to reading support orgs	Median grant size
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	38	$375
Dollar General Literacy Foundation	TN	National	0.6%	28	$2,500
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	27	$500
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.0%	16	$800
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	16	$129
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	14	$2,012
Charity Partners Foundation	MA	National	0.4%	14	$20
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.1%	13	$550
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.2%	12	$1,000
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	12	$3

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Remedial and developmental reading organizations grantees

Remedial reading organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 94% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 27% of all reading support orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,490
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	4

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,000
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,750
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	207
New York	117
Massachusetts	116
Tennessee	83
Other	971

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
San Francisco	131
New York City	103
Washington DC	80
Nashville	74
Other	1,033

Top 25 grants made to remedial reading organizations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Reading and Math	$23,151,922	Americorps Program	ServeMinnesota
The Dollywood Foundation	$5,480,560	Early Literacy	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Durhams Partnership for Children	$4,990,522	NC Young Children	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Room to Read	$3,353,146	Project Support	Tides Foundation
Smart Start Central Oklahoma	$5,000	General Support	Love Meyer Family Foundation
Putnam City Public Schools Foundation	$5,000	General Support	Love Meyer Family Foundation
Reading Literacy Learning	$5,000	Program Support	Dr Seuss Foundation
Traveling Stories	$5,000	Program Support	Dr Seuss Foundation
Read Ahead	$5,000	General Support	The Gaiman Foundation
Dyslexia Reading Connection	$5,000	General Operating Purposes	William Siekman Foundation
Linc / Literacy Inc	$5,000	General Support	Levitt Foundation / Stephen J Mathes Esq
Reading Partners	$5,000	To Further and Promote Charitable Efforts	Mcmurtry Family Foundation of 2003
Loudoun Literacy Council	$5,000	General Capacity	The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia (CFNOVA)
Book Trust	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Trois Coeurs Foundation
Algebra Project	$5,000	Educational Programming	The John Doar Foundation
Island Readers and Writers An Initiative for Maine Children	$5,000	Exempt Purpose	The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Baby University	$5,000	General Support	Greater Toledo Community Foundation
Junior Achievement USA (JA)	$5,000	Grant Distribution	Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
The Education Foundation of Indian River County	$5,000	General Purpose	The John and Judi O'Steen Family Foundation
Northwest Arkansas Books for Kids	$5,000	General Support	Arkansas Community Foundation
Garland County Imagination Library	$5,000	Books To Children Programs	Arkansas Community Foundation
Reach Out and Read	$5,000	General Use	Glass Charitable Foundation
NJ Leep	$5,000	General Operating	Credit Suisse Americas Foundation
Tandem Partners in Early Learning	$5,000	General Operating	Credit Suisse Americas Foundation
Helps Education Fund	$5,000	General Operating	Credit Suisse Americas Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Remedial reading organizations" category for this page is determined by the "B92: Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement Programs" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.