Global Give a Book Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853538226
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5054802005
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,086
- Expenses
- $74,315
- Assets
- $5,547
- Liabilities
- $15,689
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA VEGA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LINDA VEGA (PRESIDENT)
- SHANNON BOYNTON (SECRETARY)
- SHANNON BOYNTON (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To give award-winning books to children in underprivileged communities. Global give-a-book is focused on promoting literacy and a love for reading among children. By collaborating with local businesses, schools, and partners, we aim to build communities where everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow, and read through the pages of a book .
What it reported doing in 2025
Distributed 5,826 new, award-winning children's books to low-income and underserved children throughout New Mexico. Secured a new headquarters for global give-a-book at the cnm montoya campus, providing a permanent location to expand literacy programs, strengthen community partnerships, and increase organizational capacity. Received an 80,000 capital outlay award from the state of New Mexico to establish a digital literacy and media center, including technology and equipment to support literacy outreach, educational programming, and community engagement. Hired and mentored six university of New Mexico interns who supported grant writing, social media, literacy initiatives, program development, and community outreach while gaining valuable nonprofit experience. Expanded partnerships with albuquerque public schools' title i mckinney- vento program, supporting children experiencing homelessness through literacy initiatives, food pantry distributions, and family engagement programs. Continued collaboration with community partners, including rio grande food project, the food depot, peter's paycheck, and unm reading tutors to increase access to books and literacy resources. Conducted community literacy events and read-a-thons that promoted reading engagement and provided children with books to build their home libraries. Expanded steam-focused literacy programming by distributing books that encourage learning in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Secured significant funding and community support to strengthen organizational sustainability and expand services to more children and families. Increased statewide awareness of early childhood literacy and school readiness through community outreach, partnerships, media coverage, and public engagement 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.83; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.