Children's Reading Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274669924
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5752020830
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,552
- Expenses
- $170,581
- Assets
- $219,283
- Liabilities
- $165,476
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOY NELSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GLORIA SABO (TREASURER)
- JOY NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- KRYSTAL CHAVARRIA-GONZALES (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The three fold mission of the children's reading foundation of dona ana county is to: encourage and educate families about their important role in raising a reader; support schools in assuring that students read on grade level by the end of the third grade; facilitate community involvement in helping young readers be successful.
What it reported doing in 2024
Running reading programs around the county, educating parents on the importance of reading and working with the schools to expand their literacy efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.