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RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR THE BOOK

EIN 82-5478418 BARRINGTON, RI

Revenue 2025
$185,170
Expenses 2025
$190,333

Program services were 48.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A70
Classification
1000
Street
72 RUMSTICK RD

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 · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT ENABLE THE READING, WRITING, MAKING AND SHARING OF BOOKS.

  • READING ACROSS RI BRINGS TOGETHER DIVERSE READERS IN RI TO EXPLORE THEMES OF A SPECIALLY SELECTED BOOK.

    Expenses $23,220 · Revenue $32,276

  • KIDS READING ACROSS RI IS A SUMMER READING INITIATIVE INVOLVING STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-6 THAT FOCUSES ON ONE SPECIAL BOOK AND PROVIDES CONTINUITY BETWEEN SCHOOL AND SUMMER READING.

    Expenses $19,501 · Revenue $56,250

  • YOUTH POETRY PARTNERS WITH THE RI POET LAUREATE TO SELECT A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO SERVE AS YOUTH POETRY ADVOCATE TO BRING MORE POETRY TO THE STATE'S YOUTH AND INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH EXAMPLE.

    Expenses $17,840 · Revenue $13,780

  • GENERAL FUNDRAISING, FESTIVALS AND AWARD CAMPAIGNS TO SUPPORT RI COMMUNITY BOOK PROGRAMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION.

    Expenses $31,595 · Revenue $90,540

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MEAGAN LENIHAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHERYL SPACE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAUREEN KELSEY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHERINE LENTZ

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $78,212
    From this org
    $74,712
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,500
    Hours/week
    40

  • KIRSTEN DAVIS

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $185,170
    Expenses
    $190,333
    Contributions
    $167,345
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $218,613
    Expenses
    $214,632
    Contributions
    $201,417
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $175,426
    Expenses
    $197,204
    Contributions
    $169,115
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $188,539
    Expenses
    $203,696
    Contributions
    $183,411
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $198,126
    Expenses
    $159,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,829

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $162,976
    Expenses
    $142,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,759

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.