Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,453,512

Total expenses

$1,504,615

Contributions and grants received

$1,154,832

Grants paid

$1,004,991

Program service revenue

$165,562

Investment income

$26,216

Other revenue

$106,902

Total assets, end of year

$998,328

Total liabilities, end of year

$159,391

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$838,937

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,336,637

Management and general expenses

$120,124

Fundraising expenses

$47,854

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,336,637

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Book Up Summer: Every summer, while students from affluent families make progress on their reading skills, students from low-income families lose ground. The effects of summer learning loss are cumulative, and its compounding impact is responsible for much of the reading achievement gap. Book Up Summer addresses this problem, reaching approximately 22,346 students in kindergarten through second grade from high-poverty elementary schools, and giving them 12 books each to read during summer vacation. Giving children their choice of books furnishes them with the resources and incentive necessary to read during the summer, avoid the summer learning loss phenomenon, and ultimately helping to narrow the achievement gap.

  Expenses $1,074,406 · Grants $902,945 · Revenue $153,270

• Story Leaders: Over the course of a year, low-income children hear 8 million fewer words than children from affluent families. Story Leaders aims to close this word gap by facilitating literacy training and access to books for families whose children could gain the most from the program. Page Ahead partners with ECEAP and Head Start classrooms to provide early literacy training for teachers, new books for children, and home reading support for families. During the 2023-24 school year, 1,786 students received nearly 15,475 new books.

  Expenses $102,792 · Grants $59,400 · Revenue $12,292

• Books for Kids: Providing access to books for children in need is a proven way to increase the amount of time they spend reading. Page Ahead's original flagship program, Books for Kids, reached 1,519 children in need with 2,443 new, high-quality, age-appropriate books in 2023-24. To efficiently reach the children most in need, Page Ahead collaborates with preschools, elementary schools, and social service agencies across Washington State. Page Ahead provides a wide variety of books through fun, motivational reading events. Empowering children to make their own choices ensures that each child has reading material suited to their individual interest.

  Expenses $86,666 · Grants $23,502 · Revenue $252

• Book Oasis: In high-income communities, there are about 13 books for every child; in high-poverty communities, there is one book for every 300 children. These neighborhoods are considered book deserts, and the children who live in them have a much harder time accessing the appropriate reading material they need to become strong readers. Book Oasis builds and places specially designed little free libraries in neighborhood book deserts and stocks them with great new children's books for kids to access freely. Volunteers monitor each oasis and restock them monthly. In 23-24, Page Ahead volunteers stocked 19 Book Oasis libraries with 6,007 new children's books through the program.

  Expenses $22,955 · Grants $19,144

• Story Times: Trained volunteers bring reading fun and inspiration to preschool and kindergarten age children in the Puget Sound area and Spokane.

  Expenses $28,483

• Volunteer Services: Page Ahead volunteers conduct book drives, read with children, and sort and pack books for program sites.

  Expenses $21,335

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Sun Valley Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Valley View Early Learning Center

  — no cash amount reported

  Early Literacy

• Mark Twain Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Madison Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Centralia College ECEAP

  — no cash amount reported

  Early Literacy

• Midway Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• White Center Heights Elementary

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Hazel Valley Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Roosevelt Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

• Sunnycrest Elementary School

  — no cash amount reported

  Summer Reading

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

10 April 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202511929349301136

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