WORDS ALIVE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A70

Classification

1000

Street

770 PARK BLVD

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Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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• ROLLING READERS U S A INC

  EIN 33-0523713

Mission and programs · 2024

• Read Aloud Program volunteers share the joy of a good story while helping children develop the cognitive, language, and social-emotional skills needed to be capable readers. Our program inspires students to be curious, courageous, and compassionate by exploring engaging and relevant books together with caring adults. In 2024-2025 program year, we provided weekly read aloud experiences and new books to 3,431 students across 23 Title I elementary schools, 78 out-of-school time providers, and dozens of community-based organizations.Students took home over 14,000 books paired with custom bilingual learning kits to deepen connection to the text.

  Expenses $392,055 · Revenue $17,706

• Family Literacy Program inspires parents and family caregivers to make exploring books a robust family habit by connecting reading and play.Parents and caregivers receive new childrens books to grow their personal libraries and learn engagement strategies and exploratory activities to use reading as a family at home. Families report reading more often together, for longer periods of time, and practicing positive reading behaviors with their children. Offered in English and Spanish, this six-week workshop series reached 1,358 families and 1,508 family caregivers in the 2024-25 program year and distributed 8,148 books, each paired with a custom bilingual learning kit designed to bring the book alive. An additional 2,000 books were distributed through outreach events to help drive program registration and awareness at partner sites in communities most impacted by the literacy crisis.

  Expenses $207,455 · Revenue $90,334

• Adolescent Book Group ignites a love of reading by connecting teenagers with volunteer facilitators to discuss, write, and create projects that bring books alive. As students share perspectives in this safe space, they improve communication skills, gain confidence, and enhance their ability to express themselves authentically. Diverse and contemporary texts are explored through discussion groups, text analysis, writing workshops, and author/illustrator visits. During the 2024-25 program year, we brought reading alive for 95 teens and young adolescents. We distributed 400 engaging books to young readers in the program, resulting in an average increase of nearly 60 percent in the size of participants personal libraries.

  Expenses $99,434

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,164,791

  Expenses

  $1,137,715

  Contributions

  $1,037,465

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,039,643

  Expenses

  $1,113,432

  Contributions

  $880,008

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,097,969

  Expenses

  $1,000,750

  Contributions

  $2,949,263

  Grants paid

  $17,205

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,306,134

  Expenses

  $789,897

  Assets (EOY)

  $931,415

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,017,843

  Expenses

  $808,587

  Assets (EOY)

  $432,127

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $713,507

  Expenses

  $676,722

  Assets (EOY)

  $251,119

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $686,740

  Expenses

  $800,281

  Assets (EOY)

  $198,428

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $767,977

  Expenses

  $720,102

  Assets (EOY)

  $263,731

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $738,486

  Expenses

  $735,377

  Assets (EOY)

  $198,568

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $684,130

  Expenses

  $693,446

  Assets (EOY)

  $184,743

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $610,136

  Expenses

  $605,002

  Assets (EOY)

  $192,596

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $359,624

  Assets (EOY)

  $177,163

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $314,582

  Assets (EOY)

  $238,290

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $215,300

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $165,872

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO

  $148,298

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $141,500

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO

  $127,115

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO

  $122,191

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $97,625

  2022 · SHELVING TO STORE LITERACY MATERIALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $58,859

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO

  $57,872

  2022 · GENERAL

• JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO

  $52,539

  2023 · GENERAL

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

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