Literacy for Kids Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832845524
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3135306656
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,060
- Expenses
- $194,195
- Assets
- $38,938
- Liabilities
- $62
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAYNE M ROSE-VALLEE (PRESIDENT/TR)
People named in this filing
- HEATHER MERTZ (FORMER ED)
- JAYNE M ROSE-VALLEE (PRESIDENT/TR)
- L SCOTT VALLEE (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
The mission of the literacy for kids, inc., a non-profit corporation, is to promote literacy, support, education, adovacte empathy, and encourage self- acceptance for all children. We enrich education by visiting and reading to elementary schools, sponsoring reading and writing programs, and expanding community awareness in schools. Our fundraising supports reading and writting programs, educational seminars, and resources for school librariies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Book donations and literacy education
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
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: -16.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.