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READING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP

EIN 82-0921310 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$117,563
Expenses 2024
$381,475

Program services were 42.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1200
Street
1055 W BRYN MAWR

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

Primary exempt purpose

READING BETWEEN THE LINES CREATES A UNIQUE SPACE FOR THE DISCUSSION OF GREAT LITERATURE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED OR TRANSITIONING BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. BY READING TOGETHER AND SHARING INSIGHTS, PARTICIPANTS' VOICES ARE HEARD AND VALUED AS THEY BUILD ON THEIR COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS.

  • THE ORGANIZATION USES DISCUSSION OF LITERATURE TO BUILD CRITICAL THINKING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS WITH THE CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED. THE ORGANIZATION FACILITATES DISCUSSION OF SHORT, POWERFUL POEMS AND STORIES EVERY WEEK WITH MEN AND WOMEN INCARCERATED OR LIVING IN TRANSITIONAL RESIDENCES AND HALFWAY HOUSES.

    Expenses $161,376

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.

  • Wilder Kendrick Berry Sr

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marquis Miller

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Veronda Pitchford

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James Schad

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrea Martonffy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kimberly Campbell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathy Saltmarsh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lakeisha Isom

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Anthony Salaam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Kuwamura Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Agustin M Torres

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $102,820
    Compensation
    $102,820
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $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
    $117,563
    Expenses
    $381,475
    Contributions
    $117,246
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $166,047
    Expenses
    $412,548
    Contributions
    $161,027
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $220,479
    Expenses
    $370,878
    Contributions
    $286,826
    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
    $451,584
    Expenses
    $312,898
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,099

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $439,096
    Expenses
    $254,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $700,264

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,193
    Expenses
    $202,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $502,501

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $581,109
    Expenses
    $133,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $479,149

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 2016

Tax period
1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017
Principal officer
Joan Shapiro
Mailing address
5614 South Dorchester AvenueChicago IL 60637

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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.