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READING READY PITTSBURGH

EIN 83-1255489 HOMESTEAD, PA

Revenue 2024
$1,478,117
Expenses 2024
$793,955

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
220 E 8TH AVE

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

Supporting healthy development of young children by increasing access to books and by encouraging significant family engagement through reading,

  • Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: Partnering with the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Reading Ready Pittsburgh contracts for books to be mailed to over 8,000 children's homes each month. These books are intended to support the healthy development of young children by increasing access to books and by encouraging significant family engagement through reading.

    Expenses $271,524

  • Raising a Reader: This is a book bag rotation program. The classic red Book Bag program supports families in developing shared reading routines that build early literacy skills and foster a love of books. This book bag rotation program is provided to over 1600 children through a variety of early childhood education professionals including Home Visitors, Head Starts, Early Head Starts, Private Childcare Centers and Elementary Schools.

    Expenses $237,427 · Revenue $14,913

  • B is for Books:This is a 100% free bookstore for children and families. The bookstore also doubles as a resource for early childhood educators and parents to access high quality reading materials for the families in their care and as an educational support where workshops/trainings are provided. B is for Books is open to the public 5 days each week. Each child visiting can take home 3 free books. Fun community outreach events occur on a monthly basis.

    Expenses $91,608 · Revenue $140,865

  • Community Engagement and Outreach:Reading Ready Pittsburgh loves to work directly and creatively in their local communities. Reading Ready Pittsburgh is often tabling at a variety of community events and at partner's events. They also work with the family centers and pediatricians around the Mon Valley and provide them books and resources of all kinds like early literacy posters, stickers with helpful hints for parents, and literature highlighting the importance of early literacy.

    Expenses $45,751

  • Various Other Programs: These include Read With Me (Summer)and Give Away Books among others.

    Expenses $42,249 · Revenue $2,841

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Caren Ponty

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mohammed Burny

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eugene O'Sullivan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

  • Keya Lowry

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Claudia Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Denise Dembski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chardae Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christopher Mark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margaret Whitmer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Lynn Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Denison PhD

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $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
    $1,478,117
    Expenses
    $793,955
    Contributions
    $1,315,563
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $702,175
    Expenses
    $571,684
    Contributions
    $602,404
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $298,869
    Expenses
    $306,409
    Contributions
    $241,094
    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
    $248,925
    Expenses
    $148,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,706

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 July 2018 to 30 June 2019
Principal officer
Reading Ready Pgh
Mailing address
PO Box 81111Pittsburgh PA 15217
Website
readingreadypittsburgh.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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.