Nonprofit · EIN 91-1600084
PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM
Tax-exempt · SEATTLE, WA 98109
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 31, 2025 | 990 | $1,306,089 | $1,606,513 | -$300,424 | $620,843 | $82,330 | $538,513 |
| August 31, 2024 | 990 | $1,453,512 | $1,504,615 | -$51,103 | $998,328 | $159,391 | $838,937 |
| August 31, 2023 | 990 | $1,679,908 | $1,573,686 | $106,222 | $1,122,696 | $232,656 | $890,040 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $1,171,366
- Program service revenue
- $176,491
- Investment income
- $21,558
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$63,326
- Other revenue
- -$63,326
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $1,049,053
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $138,717
- Other salaries and wages
- $167,612
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $346,045
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $31,315
- Occupancy
- $104,146
- Travel
- $7,540
- Depreciation
- $2,077
- Program services (functional)
- $1,387,779
- Management and general (functional)
- $136,715
- Fundraising (functional)
- $82,019
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $998,328
- Total assets, end of year
- $620,843
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $82,330
- Net assets, end of year
- $538,513
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $3,580
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $404,290
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $134,223
- Gross receipts
- $1,399,319
- Employees
- 6
- Volunteers
- 503
- Year formed
- 1993
- State of legal domicile
- WA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Dibble | Executive Director Officer | 40 | $133,535 | $13,862 |
| Arden Leland | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Briony Pentecost | Vice-President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Suann Harris | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ying Zhao | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Indrani Bhattacharjee | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Fitzgerald | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Lydia Islan | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Holly Koelling | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Nicole Lightner | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Teresa Osborn | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Emily Rondestvedt | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kirsten Scheide | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2024: 13 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Dibble | Executive Director Officer | 40 | $129,663 | $13,260 |
| Mark Fitzgerald | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Arden Leland | Vice-President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Suann Harris | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Briony Pentecost | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Molly Powell | Member At-Large Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Teresa Osborn | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Cathy Peterman | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kirsten Scheide | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Megan Wells | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ying Zhao | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kartik Kanakasabesan | Director through 5/24 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Rudmila Rahman | Director through 10/24 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2023: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Dibble | Executive Director Officer | 40 | $111,461 | $11,195 |
| Cathy Peterman | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Fitzgerald | Vice-President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Briony Pentecost | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Lydia Islan | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Daniel Frankel | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Sahit Grapati | Director - removed from Board April 2023 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Griffin | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Suann Harris | Diretor Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Arden Leland | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Teresa Osborn | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Molly Powell | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kirsten Scheide | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kasi Walker | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Megan Wells | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ying Zhao | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 150 NICKERSON ST STE 310, SEATTLE, WA 98109-1634
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Susan Dibble, 1130 NW 85th Street, Seattle, WA 98117
- Signed the 990
- Susan Dibble, Executive Director
- Phone
- (206) 461-0123
- Website
- www.pageahead.org
- Return prepared by
- Rising Sun Accounting
Mission
Page Ahead works to increase the reading achievement of students from low-income communities in Washington. Starting with improving book access in the home, Page Ahead provides reading interventions that support children and families.
Program accomplishments
- Book Up Summer: Every summer, while students from affluent families make progress on their reading skills, students from low-income families lose ground. The effects of summer learning loss are cumulative, and its compounding impact is responsible for much of the reading achievement gap. Book Up Summer addresses this problem, reaching approximately 23,638 students in kindergarten through second grade from high-poverty elementary schools, and giving them 12 books each to read during summer vacation. Giving children their choice of books furnishes them with the resources and incentive necessary to read during the summer, avoid the summer learning loss phenomenon, and ultimately helping to narrow the achievement gap.Expenses $1,122,681 · grants $954,210 · revenue $164,360
- Story Leaders: Over the course of a year, low-income children hear 8 million fewer words than children from affluent families. Story Leaders aims to close this word gap by facilitating literacy training and access to books for families whose children could gain the most from the program. Page Ahead partners with ECEAP and Head Start classrooms to provide early literacy training for teachers, new books for children, and home reading support for families. During the 2024-25 school year, 1,739 students received nearly 15,070 new books.Expenses $111,451 · grants $57,429 · revenue $12,131
- Books for Kids: Providing access to books for children in need is a proven way to increase the amount of time they spend reading. Page Ahead's original flagship program, Books for Kids, reached 2,153 children in need with 2,700 new, high-quality, age-appropriate books in 2024-25. To efficiently reach the children most in need, Page Ahead collaborates with preschools, elementary schools, and social service agencies across Washington State. Page Ahead provides a wide variety of books through fun, motivational reading events. Empowering children to make their own choices ensures that each child has reading material suited to their individual interest.Expenses $80,139 · grants $16,991
- Book Oasis: In high-income communities, there are about 13 books for every child; in high-poverty communities, there is one book for every 300 children. These neighborhoods are considered book deserts, and the children who live in them have a much harder time accessing the appropriate reading material they need to become strong readers. Book Oasis builds and places specially designed little free libraries in neighborhood book deserts and stocks them with great new children's books for kids to access freely. Volunteers monitor each oasis and restock them monthly. In 2024-2025, Page Ahead volunteers stocked 19 Book Oasis libraries with 6,311 new children's books through the program.Expenses $24,931 · grants $20,423
- Story Times: Trained volunteers bring reading fun and inspiration to preschool and kindergarten age children in the Puget Sound area and Spokane.Expenses $27,644
- Volunteer Services: Page Ahead volunteers conduct book drives, read with children, and sort and pack books for program sites.Expenses $20,933
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in August, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | August 31, 2026 | January 15, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | August 31, 2025 | January 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | August 31, 2024 | January 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 91-1600084
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1993
- Accounting year ends
- August
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Education (B92Z)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $620,843
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,399,319
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | August 2025 | $1,306,089 | $1,606,513 | $620,843 | XML |
| 990 | August 2024 | $1,453,512 | $1,504,615 | $998,328 | XML |
| 990 | August 2023 | $1,679,908 | $1,573,686 | $1,122,696 | XML |
| 990 | August 2022 | $1,246,269 | $1,356,183 | $802,716 | IRS |
| 990 | August 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 91-1600084).
Questions about PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM
- What is the EIN of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM is 91-1600084.
- Is PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1993.
- Are donations to PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending August 31, 2026) is due January 15, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended August 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 names Susan Dibble.
- Who are the officers and directors of PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 lists 13 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $133,535 (Susan Dibble, Executive Director).
- How much revenue does PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM have?
- On its 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $1,306,089, expenses of $1,606,513 and total assets of $620,843 at year end.
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