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PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM

EIN 91-1600084 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$1,306,089
Expenses 2024
$1,606,513

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B92Z
Classification
1000
Street
150 NICKERSON ST

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

Page Ahead works to increase the reading achievement of students from low-income communities in Washington. Starting with improving book access in the home, Page Ahead provides reading interventions that support children and families.

  • Book Up Summer: Every summer, while students from affluent families make progress on their reading skills, students from low-income families lose ground. The effects of summer learning loss are cumulative, and its compounding impact is responsible for much of the reading achievement gap. Book Up Summer addresses this problem, reaching approximately 23,638 students in kindergarten through second grade from high-poverty elementary schools, and giving them 12 books each to read during summer vacation. Giving children their choice of books furnishes them with the resources and incentive necessary to read during the summer, avoid the summer learning loss phenomenon, and ultimately helping to narrow the achievement gap.

    Expenses $1,122,681 · Grants $954,210 · Revenue $164,360

  • Story Leaders: Over the course of a year, low-income children hear 8 million fewer words than children from affluent families. Story Leaders aims to close this word gap by facilitating literacy training and access to books for families whose children could gain the most from the program. Page Ahead partners with ECEAP and Head Start classrooms to provide early literacy training for teachers, new books for children, and home reading support for families. During the 2024-25 school year, 1,739 students received nearly 15,070 new books.

    Expenses $111,451 · Grants $57,429 · Revenue $12,131

  • Books for Kids: Providing access to books for children in need is a proven way to increase the amount of time they spend reading. Page Ahead's original flagship program, Books for Kids, reached 2,153 children in need with 2,700 new, high-quality, age-appropriate books in 2024-25. To efficiently reach the children most in need, Page Ahead collaborates with preschools, elementary schools, and social service agencies across Washington State. Page Ahead provides a wide variety of books through fun, motivational reading events. Empowering children to make their own choices ensures that each child has reading material suited to their individual interest.

    Expenses $80,139 · Grants $16,991

  • Book Oasis: In high-income communities, there are about 13 books for every child; in high-poverty communities, there is one book for every 300 children. These neighborhoods are considered book deserts, and the children who live in them have a much harder time accessing the appropriate reading material they need to become strong readers. Book Oasis builds and places specially designed little free libraries in neighborhood book deserts and stocks them with great new children's books for kids to access freely. Volunteers monitor each oasis and restock them monthly. In 2024-2025, Page Ahead volunteers stocked 19 Book Oasis libraries with 6,311 new children's books through the program.

    Expenses $24,931 · Grants $20,423

  • Story Times: Trained volunteers bring reading fun and inspiration to preschool and kindergarten age children in the Puget Sound area and Spokane.

    Expenses $27,644

  • Volunteer Services: Page Ahead volunteers conduct book drives, read with children, and sort and pack books for program sites.

    Expenses $20,933

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.

  • Susan Dibble

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $147,397
    From this org
    $133,535
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,862
    Hours/week
    40

  • Arden Leland

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Briony Pentecost

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Suann Harris

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ying Zhao

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Indrani Bhattacharjee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Fitzgerald

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lydia Islan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Holly Koelling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicole Lightner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Teresa Osborn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Rondestvedt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kirsten Scheide

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,306,089
    Expenses
    $1,606,513
    Contributions
    $1,171,366
    Grants paid
    $1,049,053
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,453,512
    Expenses
    $1,504,615
    Contributions
    $1,154,832
    Grants paid
    $1,004,991
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,679,908
    Expenses
    $1,573,686
    Contributions
    $1,526,196
    Grants paid
    $971,493

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
    $1,246,269
    Expenses
    $1,356,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $802,716

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,203,439
    Expenses
    $1,269,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $915,265

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,174,191
    Expenses
    $1,045,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,033,356

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,133,232
    Expenses
    $1,042,729
    Assets (EOY)
    $855,202

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,253,501
    Expenses
    $1,043,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $752,491

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,399
    Expenses
    $1,021,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $550,651

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $737,964
    Expenses
    $902,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $927,810

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,472
    Expenses
    $680,407
    Assets (EOY)
    $776,021

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $684,082
    Expenses
    $768,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $687,079

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $711,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $767,070

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

  • Sun Valley Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Pathfinder Elementary

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Midway Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Mark Twain Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Hazel Valley Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Madison Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Garfield Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Valley View Early Learning Center

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Saddle Mountain Elementary

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

  • Wildwood Elementary School

    no cash amount reported

    2024 Summer Reading

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

Where these grants went next →

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.