Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025
Filed by LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $24,843
- Total expenses
- $27,078
- Contributions and grants received
- $24,828
- Grants paid
- $24,732
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $15
- Total assets, end of year
- $14,011
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $14,011
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $24,732
Program services were 91.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
To collaborate with teachers librarians volunteers and staff serving New Yorks and other states incarcerated and detained youth along with host agencies to enhance students reading skills and interest. Our goal is to inspire all students to embrace a literate lifestyle. We achieve this by creating outstanding school libraries delivering top-notch library programs organizing special events and providing professional development chances.
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Collection Development Grants were awarded to 34 juvenile detention centers in New York City and State to acquire 842 books and 126 magazine and newspaper subscriptions benefiting approximately 1612 students.
Expenses $18,274
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Library and Literacy Program Grants were given to 5 juvenile detention centers in New York and Kentucky to provide 54 in person and zoom author visits writing poetry and performing workshops serving approximately 1438 students.
Expenses $6,458
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Karlan Sick
Chairperson President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Judith Frost
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mary Elizabeth Wendt
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Mary Lou Deligo
Boardmember
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Melissa Smith
Boardmentber
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- 21 August 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.2
- Source object
- 202602339349200405
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