FIRST BOOK

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B92Z

Classification

2000

Street

1319 F ST NW STE 1000

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

• FIRST BOOK IS BUILDING A WORLD WHERE EVERY CHILD HAS ACCESS TO A QUALITY EDUCATION. WE WORK TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO EDUCATION AND LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR KIDS IN NEED. AT THE HEART OF OUR WORK ARE THE 600,000+ MEMBERS OF THE FIRST BOOK NETWORK, THE LARGEST ONLINE COMMUNITY OF INDIVIDUAL EDUCATORS, PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING CHILDREN LIVING IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA. THIS NETWORK IS THE KEY TO CREATING LASTING CHANGE. THROUGH OUR RESEARCH ARM, FIRST BOOK RESEARCH & INSIGHTS, WE CONDUCT STUDIES THAT AGGREGATE THEIR VOICES TO IDENTIFY CHALLENGES, NEEDS, AND SOLUTIONS. TO ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS, WE PROVIDE FREE AND LOW-COST BOOKS, RESOURCES AND ACCESS TO LEADING EXPERTS THROUGH THE FIRST BOOK MARKETPLACE, WHICH USES AGGREGATED BUYING POWER TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK.

  Expenses $70,146,155 · Grants $226,238 · Revenue $13,942,867

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $77,064,962

  Expenses

  $75,011,326

  Contributions

  $63,087,127

  Grants paid

  $226,238

• 2023

  Revenue

  $85,122,503

  Expenses

  $88,386,667

  Contributions

  $68,738,567

  Grants paid

  $93,180

• 2022

  Revenue

  $104,666,814

  Expenses

  $120,387,234

  Contributions

  $89,778,432

  Grants paid

  $350,000

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

  $119,219,618

  Expenses

  $102,941,147

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,359,379

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $126,947,043

  Expenses

  $133,980,886

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,886,545

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $95,484,650

  Expenses

  $101,137,707

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,783,579

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $96,220,965

  Expenses

  $94,889,118

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,823,862

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $107,009,268

  Expenses

  $106,297,627

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,885,751

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $137,049,068

  Expenses

  $135,122,816

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,575,312

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $136,101,069

  Expenses

  $129,060,587

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,529,478

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $94,537,091

  Expenses

  $99,960,631

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,072,324

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $104,617,930

  Expenses

  $94,813,997

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,155,107

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $97,318,993

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,256,185

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

• REACH OUT AND READ GREATER NEW YORK

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• REACH OUT AND READ BOSTON

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• REACH OUT AND READ RI

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• BOOK HARVEST

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• PARENTS AS TEACHERS

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• AFT

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• RAISING A READER

  $25,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• ROOM TO READ

  $15,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• HEART OF AMERICA

  $15,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

• PARENTCHILD

  $15,000

  2022 · Diverse book coalition

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• KPMG U S FOUNDATION INC

  $2,002,000

  2024 · OPERATIONS

• BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC

  $1,014,312

  2023 · General support

• BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC

  $1,000,000

  2024 · General support

• KPMG U S FOUNDATION INC

  $871,722

  2022 · OPERATIONS

• THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND

  $726,506

  2024 · TO HELP THE NEEDY

• BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC

  $716,700

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND

  $713,688

  2023 · TO HELP THE NEEDY

• THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND

  $650,063

  2022 · TO HELP THE NEEDY

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $440,169

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• KPMG U S FOUNDATION INC

  $366,410

  2023 · OPERATIONS

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

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