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READING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC

EIN 51-0155758 ARLINGTON, VA

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Revenue 2024
$154,547
Expenses 2024
$139,027

Program services were 89.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B92Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 7012

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

MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO READ BY PROVIDING ATTRACTIVE, INEXPENSIVE PAPERBACK BOOKS THAT CHILDREN MAY CHOOSE AND KEEP FOR THEIR VERY OWN. THE BOOKS ARE FREE AND ARE DISPLAYED AT BOOK DISTRIBUTIONS WHERE CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF COLORFUL, INTERESTING PAPERBACK BOOKS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MOTIVATING CHILDREN TO READ BY MAKING READING FUN AND BY DISTRIBUTING FREE BOOKS.

  • READING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, INC. IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO READ BY PROVIDING THEM WITH HIGH-QUALITY, FREE BOOKS OF THEIR CHOOSING AND TO WORK ALONGSIDE THEM, THEIR PARENTS, AND THEIR COMMUNITY TO MAKE READING A FUN AND MEANINGFUL PART OF THEIR LIVES. SINCE 1972 -- OVER 50 YEARS -- WE HAVE PROVIDED BOOKS TO UNDERSERVED CHILDREN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA. AS AN ALL-VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION, FUNDRAISING TO PURCHASE BOOKS IS A MAJOR ELEMENT IN OUR WORK.THROUGH OUR BOOKS FOR KEEPS PROGRAM, RIF NOVA BOARD MEMBERS AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS WORK TOGETHER WITH SCHOOL LIAISONS TO DISTRIBUTE FREE BOOKS TO 20,000+ CHILDREN WHO ATTEND SCHOOLS, DAY CARE CENTERS, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA AND IN ARLINGTON, FAIRFAX, AND PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTIES. THOUSANDS MORE BOOKS ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH OUR DONATED BOOKS PROGRAM. OUR GOAL IS TO MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO READ AND SHARE BOOKS WITH THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

    Expenses $124,363 · Revenue $16,224

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.

  • Sarah Bohn

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jeanette Cimino

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sari Warren

    RECORDING SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Held

    CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maureen McLaughlin

    SUNSHINE SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Stickles

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kathy Rusinski

    FINANCIAL SECY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lisa Keathley

    COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jo Ann Abrams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeuli Bartenstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bea Bernfeld

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dora Sue Black

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Brandus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carylee Carrington

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Aisha Fallen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hazeline Harris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melissa Hinkson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nadine James

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justina Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lauren Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sheila Jonas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gayle Kelley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy King

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne-Stuart Kirkhorn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sheryl Leeds

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $154,547
    Expenses
    $139,027
    Contributions
    $133,099
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $245,354
    Expenses
    $198,928
    Contributions
    $221,908
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $247,419
    Expenses
    $104,104
    Contributions
    $232,211
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $114,726
    Expenses
    $88,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,167
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $49,090
    Expenses
    $72,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,809
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $83,175
    Expenses
    $68,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,613
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $89,823
    Expenses
    $67,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,695
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $92,772
    Expenses
    $68,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $236,613
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $78,681
    Expenses
    $91,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,548
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $93,984
    Expenses
    $84,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,716
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,904
    Expenses
    $82,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,803
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $82,587
    Expenses
    $74,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,852
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $148,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,694

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.