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LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS

EIN 80-0281475 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2025
$24,843
Expenses 2025
$27,078

Program services were 91.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I43
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 150300

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 · 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Karlan Sick

    Chairperson President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Judith Frost

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Elizabeth Wendt

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mary Lou Deligo

    Boardmember

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Smith

    Boardmentber

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $24,843
    Expenses
    $27,078
    Contributions
    $24,828
    Grants paid
    $24,732
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,181
    Expenses
    $46,117
    Contributions
    $21,126
    Grants paid
    $45,081
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $70,863
    Expenses
    $55,336
    Contributions
    $70,774
    Grants paid
    $52,727

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $42,708
    Expenses
    $41,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,747

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009
Principal officer
Mary Elizabeth Wendt
Mailing address
1461 First Avenue 113New York NY 10075
Website
www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.