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KIDS NEED TO READ

EIN 26-2755631 MESA, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$579,120
Expenses 2024
$840,101

Program services were 94.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
950 W BIRCHWOOD AVE STE 11

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

KIDS NEED TO READ HELPS CHILDREN TO DISCOVER THE JOY OF READING AND THE POWER OF A LITERATE MIND BY PROVIDING INSPIRING BOOKS AND LITERACY PROGRAMS TO UNDERFUNDED SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, AND COMMUNITY AGENCIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, ESPECIALLY THOSE SERVING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDING BOOKS TO CHILDREN AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • GRANTS TO PROVIDE BOOKS TO DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN THROUGH UNDERFUNDED SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES AND LITERACY PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS LITERACY AND GRADUATION RATES AMONG OUR NATION'S YOUTH.

    Expenses $789,680 · Grants $695,649 · Revenue $583,114

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Tyson Breinholt

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Miller

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bruce Matsunaga PhD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Elhard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kim Obrien

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gary Mlodzik

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Mlodzik

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Boudrie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denise Gary

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jessica Payne

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $54,281
    From this org
    $54,281
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Tiffany Ellington

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Theresa Warber

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Glenna Breinholt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jamie Breinholt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $579,120
    Expenses
    $840,101
    Contributions
    $579,110
    Grants paid
    $695,649
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $718,945
    Expenses
    $1,406,781
    Contributions
    $718,813
    Grants paid
    $1,238,839
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,209,970
    Expenses
    $1,280,310
    Contributions
    $1,208,803
    Grants paid
    $1,074,699

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
    $608,794
    Expenses
    $1,369,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,792,528

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,114,515
    Expenses
    $1,336,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,590,466

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $808,741
    Expenses
    $1,063,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,782,127

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,860,535
    Expenses
    $821,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,026,248

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,098,739
    Expenses
    $762,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,992,004

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,788,279
    Expenses
    $824,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,655,430

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $491,755
    Expenses
    $419,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $692,679

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.

Grants made

  • PALOMINO PRIMARY SCHOOL

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • INDIAN OASIS PRIMARY

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • NATIVE AMERICAN FATHERHOOD AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • SUPERSTITION COMMUNITY FOODBANK

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • AARP FOUNDATION EXPERIENCE

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • MESA UNITED WAY

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • WOODRUFF MEMORIAL LIBRARY

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • MORIARTY COMMUNITY LIBRARY

    $0

    2022 READING RESOURCES PROVIDED TO UNDERFUNDED LITERACY PROGRAMS TO INCREASE READING PROFICIENCY LEVELS AMONG DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

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

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.