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READ TO GROW INC

EIN 06-1572185 BRANFORD, CT

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Revenue 2024
$1,283,107
Expenses 2024
$1,430,784

Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B92
Classification
2000
Street
53 SCHOOL GROUND RD STE 3

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

OUR MISSION IS TO PROMOTE LANGUAGE SKILLS AND LITERACY FOR CHILDREN, BEGINNING AT BIRTH, AND TO SUPPORT FAMILIES AS THEIR BABIES' FIRST TEACHERS. OUR VISION IS THAT EVERY FAMILY WILL APPRECIATE THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY AND WILL ENGAGE IN THEIR CHILD'S READING DEVELOPMENT. ALL CHILDREN IN CONNECTICUT WILL HAVE BOOKS OF THEIR OWN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE LANGUAGE SKILLS AND LITERACY FOR CHILDREN, BEGINNING AT BIRTH, AND TO SUPPORT PARENTS AS THEIR BABIES' FIRST TEACHERS.

  • BOOKS FOR BABIES THIS PROGRAM OPERATES THREE DISTINCT PROJECTS: THE PRENATAL PROJECT, THE NEWBORN PROJECT AND THE NICU PROJECT. THE PRENATAL PROJECT FOCUSES ON DISTRIBUTING FREE CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND INFORMATION ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND LITERACY TO EXPECTING FAMILIES RECEIVING PRENATAL CARE AT NINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS. THE NEWBORN PROJECT OPERATES IN 19 PARTNER HOSPITALS, GIVING ALL FAMILIES WITH NEWBORNS LITERACY PACKETS THAT INCLUDE BABY BOARD BOOKS AND LITERACY GUIDES WHICH DESCRIBE HOW TO SUPPORT INFANTS' LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. FAMILIES WHO REGISTER FOR THE FIRST YEAR PROGRAM ARE MAILED MORE BOOKS AND INFORMATION AT THEIR CHILD'S 3 MONTH AND 1-YEAR MILESTONES. THE NICU PROJECT OPERATES IN FIVE LOCATIONS AND PROVIDES LITERACY INFORMATION AND BOOKS TO PARENTS OF BABIES WHO ARE ADMITTED TO NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS.

    Expenses $533,527 · Revenue $85,080

  • BOOKS FOR KIDS BOOKS FOR KIDS GIVES MORE THAN 50,000 BOOKS ANNUALLY TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND TO HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS, DOCTORS' OFFICES, HEALTHCARE AND CHILDCARE PROVIDERS, AND OTHER NONPROFITS, INCLUDING OTHER LITERACY-FOCUSED AGENCIES AND MAILS BOOKS TO FAMILIES WHO REQUEST BOOKS ONLINE. WHILE THE MAJORITY OF BOOKS IN OUR INVENTORY ARE IN ENGLISH, WE ALSO OFFER A VARIETY OF BOOKS IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH / SPANISH AND HAVE A SMALL NUMBER OF BOOKS AVAILABLE IN 11 OTHER LANGUAGES TO SERVE THE VAST IMMIGRANT POPULATION IN CONNECTICUT.

    Expenses $385,826 · Revenue $2,249

  • THE BOOKMOBILE TRAVELS ACROSS THE STATE AND PROVIDES AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND CHILDCARE PROVIDERS WHO MAY CHOOSE BOOKS TO KEEP FROM THE BOOKMOBILE.

    Expenses $244,862

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.

  • Dr Monette Ferguson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • Carla M Horwitz

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • Jane W Lee

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • Jennifer Groves Fusco

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • Barbara Clerkin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joshua A Copel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • Mary Kay Curtiss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.7

  • Katherine Kohari

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Shabnam Lainwala

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • Nick Lebron

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lisa Maass

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • Lori McLnerney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.7

  • Anna Reiter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Irene Peluso

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • Suzannah Holsenbeck

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,641
    From this org
    $109,641
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,283,107
    Expenses
    $1,430,784
    Contributions
    $1,218,096
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,444,347
    Expenses
    $1,344,057
    Contributions
    $1,402,946
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,629,143
    Expenses
    $1,436,859
    Contributions
    $1,563,622
    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
    $1,217,263
    Expenses
    $1,428,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,292,928

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $945,038
    Expenses
    $1,269,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,619,033

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,176,539
    Expenses
    $1,354,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,897,893

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,400,171
    Expenses
    $857,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,123,388

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,021,760
    Expenses
    $1,009,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $584,482

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $788,787
    Expenses
    $702,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $594,746

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $823,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,089

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $778,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $643,374

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $765,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $804,098

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

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 11 November 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.