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I WOULD RATHER BE READING

EIN 82-4974981 LOUISVILLE, KY

Revenue 2024
$1,136,478
Expenses 2024
$674,240

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B92
Classification
1200
Street
828 S 6TH 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

STUDENTS SUFFERING WITH READING DIFICULTIES ARE AT THE CENTER OF THE HEART OF THIS ORGAINZATION WE REACH OUT TO THIS POPULATION THRU BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE AND SUMMER CAMPS

Activities or mission (Part I)

I WOULD RATHER BE READING IS A NON PROFIT WHOSE MISSION IS TO HELP STUDENTS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA INCREASE THEIR READING PROFICIENCY

  • WE SERVED OVER 500 STUDENTS IN AFTER SCHOOL AND SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS

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.

  • BRIDGET DALE

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • HEATHER MOSS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • ZION SMITH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • TRACY ASHFORD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • DAVID BOONE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • NEIL WASHNOCK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • EBONY BARTEE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • DEON REESE

    CAP CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • SHANNON WEIDEK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

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
    $1,136,478
    Expenses
    $674,240
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,117,309
    Expenses
    $938,430
    Contributions
    $499,647
    Grants paid
    $150
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,117,309
    Expenses
    $938,430
    Contributions
    $499,647
    Grants paid
    $150
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $647,054
    Expenses
    $596,605
    Contributions
    $647,054
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $541,346
    Expenses
    $610,201
    Contributions
    $541,346
    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
    $389,181
    Expenses
    $213,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $293,443
    Expenses
    $293,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $93,978
    Expenses
    $11,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $54,044
    Expenses
    $33,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
ASHLEY DEARINGER
Mailing address
1503 IROQUOIS PARKWAYLOUISVILLE KY 40214

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