BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 1800

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

• THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES BOOKS THROUGH ITS BOOKBAG PROGRAM TO LOCAL ELEMENTARY AND PRE-SCHOOLS ALONG WITH OTHER READING RELATED PROGRAMS, SUCH AS ITS "BOOKS IN CHARACTERS" OUTREACH PROGRAM AND "BOOKS FROM BIRTH" PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE READING FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH SCHOOL AND ADULTHOOD. ALSO, THE FOUNDATION FURTHERS ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE THROUGH ITS ANNUAL JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE EVENT. THIS EVENT STRIVES TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEVELOP THE IMAGINATION OF CHILDREN THROUGH THE ENACTMENT OF A CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS BOOK. WHILE BRINGING TO LIFE THE POPULAR STORY, THE EVENT HELPS DEVELOP THE IMAGINATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS WHILE FOSTERING AN EXCITEMENT FOR READING.

  Expenses $242,057

• THE ORGANIZATION ISSUES GRANTS TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE CHILDREN READING AND LITERACY PROGRAMS SO THAT THEIR GOAL OF REACHING AS MANY LOCAL CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE IS ACHEIVED. IN ADDITION THE ORGANIZATION ALSO PROVIDES COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP MONIES FOR LOCAL STUDENTS INVOLVED IN LITERACY PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $2,999 · Grants $2,999

• THE ORGANIZATION PUTS ON CHILDRENS THEATER PROGRAMS AND EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND PROVIDE LITERACY RELATED PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AS WELL AS PROVIDE A SET FOR THEIR ANNUAL "JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE" ENACTMENT. THE ORGANIZATION'S PROPERTY ALSO INCLUDES A PUBLIC HIKING TRAIL, AN EDUCATIONAL "STORYWALK" TRAIL, AS WELL AS AN EDUCATIONAL MAPLE SUGARING HOUSE WHERE CHILDRENS' GROUPS AND ADULTS CAN LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY AND PROCESS OF MAPLE SUGARING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

  Expenses $16,329 · Revenue $35,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

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

  $383,112

  Expenses

  $445,508

  Contributions

  $23,127

  Grants paid

  $2,999

• 2023

  Revenue

  $664,342

  Expenses

  $378,094

  Contributions

  $44,170

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $667,900

  Expenses

  $418,043

  Contributions

  $59,614

  Grants paid

  $2,314

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  -$108,846

  Expenses

  $339,942

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,039,312

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $849,892

  Expenses

  $515,471

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,762,067

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $489,231

  Expenses

  $476,045

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,552,168

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

• READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC

  $0

  2023 · TO FOSTER LITERACY

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