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Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025

Filed by ROCKET PHONICS FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$165,679
Total expenses
$142,033
Contributions and grants received
$164,733
Grants paid
not reported
Program service revenue
not reported
Membership dues (line 3)
not reported
Investment income (line 4)
$946
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
not reported
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
not reported
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
not reported
Other revenue (line 8)
not reported
Total assets, end of year
$72,457
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,325
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$71,132
Program service expenses (Part III)
$125,637

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

Rocket Phonics Foundation assists in closing the reading achievement gap through the use of the Rocket Phonics reading program. We are a nonprofit whose current focus is literacy for 4 to 8-year-olds. For elementary students our objective is to bring a child to grade level or above. By 8 years-old, most children will decide their future based on their ability to read. If they are not reading at grade level, they will have a 50% unemployment rate for their adult life. If one learns how to read at grade level, (s)he will replace a cycle of poverty and abuse with cycles of hope, empowerment and success. Rocket Phonics, a series of reading games, can bring them to grade level in weeks instead of years.

  • Summer Reading Program - RPF runs a reading challenge program during the summer semester. Students voluntarily attend our program to receive free tutoring. Books are given away and students read to win awards. 5 Children were served.

    Expenses $25,127

  • Winter Program - using the Winter FLORIDA ASSESSMENT of STUDENT THINKING Test (F.A.S.T.) the school site identifies student who qualify for reading tutoring.We start tutoring in January and stop after April. The school assesses the student's achievement at the end of the semester. 220 children were served.

    Expenses $56,537

  • Fall Program - using the Fall FLORIDA ASSESSMENT of STUDENT THINKING Test (F.A.S.T.) the school site identifies student who qualify for reading tutoring.We start tutoring in September and stop before Winter break. The school assesses the student's achievement at the end of the semester. 261 children were served.

    Expenses $43,973

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part IV

  • Leslie Chislett

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    20

  • Stephen Guffanti

    CEO & Secretary of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    80

  • Martha Mahoney

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_ez
Tax year
2025
Filed
11 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202621319349201907

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