Ready to Read Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881880455
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Nashville, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8129941223
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,073
- Expenses
- $84,307
- Assets
- $35,093
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASSIE STRATTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CASSIE STRATTON (PRESIDENT)
- KELLI FINLEY (TREASURER)
- MEGAN KAKAVECOS (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
Direct literacy instruction and intervention for students, including small-group and individuated services delivery of school-based support band provision of teacher training and ongoing coaching to support implementation of evidence-based, classroom-wide reading interventions. In 2025, ready to r.e.a.d. Delivered 1,794 hours of direvt literacy instruction to 172 students, resulting in over 3,000 direct student instructional hours. Through teacher training and ongoing support, we also enabled district-wide tier 1 fluency instruction, reaching 586 students and generating more than 22,800 additional student instructional hours. Ymca center - 25 students-864 hours brown county schools direct - 132 students-900 hours summer camp - 15 students-30 hours.
What it reported doing in 2025
Indiana after school grant brown county foundation grant
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.