Raising a Reader
Milpitas, CA · EIN 94-3390149. Reported 72 grants totalling $874,912 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Raising a Reader, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,772. Half of what it reported fell between $6,560 and $14,193; the smallest was $5,053 and the largest $59,331. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
69 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $813,824 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $72,534 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rar-Ma Inc | Boston, MA | $71,039 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Compton Unified School District | Compton | $67,054 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| San Diego Unified School District | San Diego | $50,098 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of West Sacramento | West Sacramento, CA | $29,655 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Foster Care Foundation | Murray, UT | $27,162 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palm Springs Unified School District | Palm Springs, CA | $26,254 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prince George's County Public Schools | Oxon Hill, MD | $26,215 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Waterford | Taylorsville, UT | $25,586 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of the Desert | Palm Desert | $21,956 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Centro De La Familia De Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $21,401 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rialto Unified School District | Rialto, CA | $21,358 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Mateo County Office of Education | Redwood City | $17,896 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Moreno Valley Unified School District | Moreno Valley, CA | $17,593 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pasadena Unified School District | Pasadena, CA | $17,079 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Unified School District | San Francisco | $16,733 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Waterford Institute Inc | Taylorsville, UT | $16,186 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baldwin Park Usd | Baldwin Park | $15,541 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| San Jose Public Library | San Jose, CA | $15,115 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment | Los Angeles, CA | $14,193 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridge Housing Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $14,035 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pajaro Valley Unified School District | Watsonville | $13,022 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brilliant Detroit | Detroit, MI | $12,320 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alum Rock Union Elementary School District | San Jose, CA | $12,098 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ocean View School District | $12,038 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $11,988 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oakland Unified School District | Oakland, CA | $11,194 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clinton Hill Community and Early Childhood Center Inc | Newark, NJ | $10,567 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| T H I N K Education | Santa Ana, CA | $9,652 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Ana Unified School District | Santa Ana, CA | $9,354 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Folsom Cordova Unified School District | Rancho Cordova, CA | $9,026 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palo Verde Unified School District | Blythe, CA | $8,973 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samaritan House | San Mateo, CA | $8,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Options for Learning | West Covina, CA | $8,782 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Region Ix Head Start Association | Sacramento, CA | $8,704 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tribal Child Care Association of California | Colusa, CA | $8,277 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mountain View School District | El Monte, CA | $8,141 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Head Start of Northeastern Nevada | Elko, NV | $7,422 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Primary School-East Palo Alto | E Palo Alto, CA | $7,375 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Rosa City School District | $7,184 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| El Centro Elementary School District | El Centro, CA | $6,917 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $6,366 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Bluff Union Elementary District | Red Bluff, CA | $6,305 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $5,764 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Jacinto Unified School District | San Jacinto, CA | $5,758 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Associated Catholic Charities Inc | Timonium, MD | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monterey Peninsula Unified School District | $5,623 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| St Annes Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $5,529 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Judy Center at John Ruhrah School | Baltimore, MD | $5,483 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Families in Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $5,459 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hemet Unified School District | Hemet, CA | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Haven Unified School District | Union City, CA | $5,298 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alisal Union School District | Salinas, CA | $5,279 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Open Door Community Health Centers | Arcata, CA | $5,188 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Judy Center at Baltimore City Moravia Park | $5,053 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
14 of 55 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Compton Unified School District
Implementation funding for program related costs and support
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $234,049 | $8,141 |
| 2022 | 12 | $122,012 | $8,467 |
| 2023 | 21 | $272,217 | $9,916 |
| 2024 | 16 | $246,634 | $9,190 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
53% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,772 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Raising a Reader's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 489 Valley Way, Milpitas, CA, 95035.
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