Reading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873042038
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Dickson, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6159252951
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,029
- Expenses
- $39,310
- Assets
- $26,827
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Hasley (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Susan Hasley (Executive Director)
- Melissa Duke (Chairman)
- Charlie Isaacs (Treasurer, Vice Chairman)
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 improve adult literacy and educational opportunities by providing tutoring, reading instruction, workforce readiness support, and educational programs for adults and families in Dickson County and surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Reading Empowerment for Adults in Dickson County provides adult literacy, ESL, and high school equivalency instruction through trained volunteer tutors. The organization offers individualized and small-group instruction to adults seeking to improve reading, writing, and English language skills, as well as prepare for high school equivalency completion. Instruction is tailored to each learner's goals, creating a supportive and flexible learning environment that promotes educational achievement and increased independence. In 2025, READ served 31 adult learners, including 14 English language learners (ESL). Eighty-one percent (81%) of participants achieved at least one personal or academic goal, demonstrating measurable progress in literacy, confidence, communication, and daily functioning. Four students earned their high school equivalency diploma. Many participants also reported greater confidence navigating everyday tasks. This work was made possible through the service of 28 volunteer tutors. READ also engages in community outreach through partnerships, local events, and targeted awareness efforts to identify adults in need of literacy services and recruit volunteer tutors. These efforts help reduce barriers to educational access, strengthen community awareness, and expand opportunities for adults pursuing literacy and educational advancement.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.