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THE LEADERS READERS NETWORK

EIN 36-4753948 CANYON, TX

Revenue 2024
$567,715
Expenses 2024
$455,570

Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1313

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 cultivate a national network of leaders who provide books, supplies, and projects to support early literacy in underserved schools.

  • The Literacy Fellowship equips educators at Title 1 schools with free professional development, read-aloud books, literacy enrichment activities, and brand new books for students delivered 4 times per year. During the 2024 - 2025 school year, we empowered 2,261 teachers across 73 school districts at 209 schools. A total of 63,738 new books were distributed. The program impacted 29,011 students directly, improving reading experiences in the classroom and book access.

    Expenses $361,727

  • The Student Ambassador program supports youth ages 13 - 24 in developing leadership, project management, and advocacy skills by completing service projects that promote equitable access to literacy. During the 2024 - 2025 school year, 150 student leaders organized and implemented 9 service projects, including 9/11 Day of Service, Trunk or Treat, Northside Toy Drive, Spurs Back to School Bash, MLK Day, and the Reading Buddy Project. The student literacy leaders engaged 5,024 students, who collectively provided 15,240 brand new books and read to 23, 134 students.

    Expenses $5,546

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.

  • Christopher McGilvery

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $42,750
    From this org
    $42,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Khushbu Patel

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr Shilpa Thaker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Laura Schulze

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Melodie Graves

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lisa Hill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Andrea Deleon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mike La Charite

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Celeste Steele

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $567,715
    Expenses
    $455,570
    Contributions
    $565,885
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $263,263
    Expenses
    $250,582
    Contributions
    $263,263
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $155,715
    Expenses
    $198,024
    Contributions
    $155,715
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $301,847
    Expenses
    $231,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,048

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $139,832
    Expenses
    $111,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,401

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $47,414
    Expenses
    $62,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,742

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $36,266
    Expenses
    $26,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,400

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,608
    Expenses
    $85,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,311

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 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Christopher McGilvery
Mailing address
9632 Aviara GardenSan Antonio TX 78251
Website
www.givemorehugs.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.