Early Literacy Ambassadors

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873679862
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cowan, TN, USA
Phone
9313087857
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,451
Expenses
$47,020
Assets
$5,218
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Holly Robinson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Holly Robinson (President)
  • Laureen Sparacio (Treasurer)
  • Rachel Malde (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our vision is to provide at-risk children with reading interventions so they will be prepared for college and careers. Our two main activities are read-aloud opportunities and small guided reading intervention groups.

What it reported doing in 2025

ELA began reading intervention programs and served 141 children. All of the students in our reading group program met or exceeded their reading goals. All third graders enrolled in our program passed their high stakes reading proficiency exam. We trained and mentored 3 volunteers and a summer intern to help expand our reach. We partnered with 2 schools and 4 libraries in order to carry out our mission.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 18
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.2%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 8

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -169.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.2% of revenue deployed · 8.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.