Authors in April Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383128631
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rochester, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2486526507
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,637
- Expenses
- $74,562
- Assets
- $83,835
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Brown Decuir (President)
- Jennifer Windeler (Vice President, Participants Committee Chair)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Brown Decuir (President)
- Wendy Lehman (Secretary, Rochester Hills Library Representative)
- Lynette Teller (Rochester Schools Representative)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Authors in April brings award winning authors and illustrators to visit the students in grades K-8 in the Rochester, MI school district. Authors participate in career presentations to students in grades 9-12. Books by the visiting authors and illustrators are sold and autographed as a part of the program. Over 10,000 students benefit from this program in an effort to promote a life long love of reading and writing. Outreach and books are also provided to low income students in Rochester and Pontiac.
What it reported doing in 2025
Each author/illustrator makes 13-15 presentations to groups of age appropriate school children over the span of one week. Over 10,000 children, grades k-12, are reached at 13 elementary, 4 middle, and 4 high schools. Books are incorporated into the curriculum at the schools and teachers and staff are provided with curricular resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.