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ROCKET PHONICS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 84-4543296 SARASOTA, FL

Revenue 2025
$165,679
Expenses 2025
$142,033

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
7320 BOUNTY DR

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

Rocket Phonics Foundation assists in closing the reading achievement gap through the use of the Rocket Phonics reading program. We are a nonprofit whose current focus is literacy for 4 to 8-year-olds. For elementary students our objective is to bring a child to grade level or above. By 8 years-old, most children will decide their future based on their ability to read. If they are not reading at grade level, they will have a 50% unemployment rate for their adult life. If one learns how to read at grade level, (s)he will replace a cycle of poverty and abuse with cycles of hope, empowerment and success. Rocket Phonics, a series of reading games, can bring them to grade level in weeks instead of years.

  • Summer Reading Program - RPF runs a reading challenge program during the summer semester. Students voluntarily attend our program to receive free tutoring. Books are given away and students read to win awards. 5 Children were served.

    Expenses $25,127

  • Winter Program - using the Winter FLORIDA ASSESSMENT of STUDENT THINKING Test (F.A.S.T.) the school site identifies student who qualify for reading tutoring.We start tutoring in January and stop after April. The school assesses the student's achievement at the end of the semester. 220 children were served.

    Expenses $56,537

  • Fall Program - using the Fall FLORIDA ASSESSMENT of STUDENT THINKING Test (F.A.S.T.) the school site identifies student who qualify for reading tutoring.We start tutoring in September and stop before Winter break. The school assesses the student's achievement at the end of the semester. 261 children were served.

    Expenses $43,973

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.

  • Leslie Chislett

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    20

  • Stephen Guffanti

    CEO & Secretary of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    80

  • Martha Mahoney

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $165,679
    Expenses
    $142,033
    Contributions
    $164,733
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $72,603
    Expenses
    $109,039
    Contributions
    $70,306
    Grants paid
    $1,600
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $125,090
    Expenses
    $108,288
    Contributions
    $122,700
    Grants paid
    $1,250
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $111,332
    Expenses
    $68,787
    Contributions
    $111,288
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $62,913
    Expenses
    $48,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,636

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 2020

Tax period
1 February 2020 to 31 January 2021
Principal officer
Stephen Guffanti
Mailing address
7320 Bounty DrSarasota FL 34231

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.