Daily Dose of Reading
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341935776
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- South Euclid, Ohio, US
- Phone
- 216-338-5144
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,223
- Expenses
- $96,282
- Assets
- $149,358
- Liabilities
- $1,305
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASMINE NORTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER VILLYARD JD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JASMINE NORTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TRICIA PANEK (TREASURER)
- BRANDON SHEIL (SECRETARY)
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
Deliver impactful programming, training, and support to nurture reading and literacy skill development in the daily lives of children and those who champion them.
What it reported doing in 2024
The play and learn program provides high-quality, early literacy programming to children 6 weeks to 5 years of age. Engaging, multi-sensory lessons that stimulate brain dvelopment and early learning are implemented using the programs specially designed curriculum that combines talking, singing, reading and playing.children receive new books to read at home with parents/caregivers, as well as the "try-it" literacy guide that is a resource with activities and materials relating to each book. As an additional resource, parents have opportunities to participate in parent education sessions facilited by daily dose of reading that focus on topics related to early literacy such as vocabulary, development and kindergarten readiness. They can learn how to read with their children.teachers also receive early literacy information through the play and learn program and have opportunities to observe literacy specialists and integrate the program curriculum into their classrooms. Connecting the teacher, parent and child, along with the literacy specialist creates a partnership that supports the development of language and early literacy skills development in young children living in at-risk communities in northeast Ohio.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -34.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.