San Diego, CA
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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)Words Alive, founded in 1999, is a community nonprofit in the Arts, Culture & Humanities sector that reported $1.2M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 12% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion. Net assets of $2.9M represent 30 months of operating reserves.
At Words Alive, we know that whole communities thrive when everyone reads. Our programs empower learners facing extraordinary life circumstances such as unstable housing, poverty, foster care, and impact by the justice system. Words Alive prioritizes the populations disproportionately impacted by the literacy crisis.
Read Aloud Program volunteers share the joy of a good story while helping children develop the cognitive, language, and social-emotional skills needed to be capable readers. Our program inspires...
Read Aloud Program volunteers share the joy of a good story while helping children develop the cognitive, language, and social-emotional skills needed to be capable readers. Our program inspires students to be curious, courageous, and compassionate by exploring engaging and relevant books together with caring adults. In 2024-2025 program year, we provided weekly read aloud experiences and new books to 3,431 students across 23 Title I elementary schools, 78 out-of-school time providers, and dozens of community-based organizations.Students took home over 14,000 books paired with custom bilingual learning kits to deepen connection to the text.
Family Literacy Program inspires parents and family caregivers to make exploring books a robust family habit by connecting reading and play.Parents and caregivers receive new childrens books to grow...
Family Literacy Program inspires parents and family caregivers to make exploring books a robust family habit by connecting reading and play.Parents and caregivers receive new childrens books to grow their personal libraries and learn engagement strategies and exploratory activities to use reading as a family at home. Families report reading more often together, for longer periods of time, and practicing positive reading behaviors with their children. Offered in English and Spanish, this six-week workshop series reached 1,358 families and 1,508 family caregivers in the 2024-25 program year and distributed 8,148 books, each paired with a custom bilingual learning kit designed to bring the book alive. An additional 2,000 books were distributed through outreach events to help drive program registration and awareness at partner sites in communities most impacted by the literacy crisis.
Adolescent Book Group ignites a love of reading by connecting teenagers with volunteer facilitators to discuss, write, and create projects that bring books alive. As students share perspectives in...
Adolescent Book Group ignites a love of reading by connecting teenagers with volunteer facilitators to discuss, write, and create projects that bring books alive. As students share perspectives in this safe space, they improve communication skills, gain confidence, and enhance their ability to express themselves authentically. Diverse and contemporary texts are explored through discussion groups, text analysis, writing workshops, and author/illustrator visits. During the 2024-25 program year, we brought reading alive for 95 teens and young adolescents. We distributed 400 engaging books to young readers in the program, resulting in an average increase of nearly 60 percent in the size of participants personal libraries.
Financial Health Score (300–850) · Liquidity · Solvency · Sustainability · Efficiency
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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)
Sign In — Free (10 views/day)| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |
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| Revenue | $1,164,791 | $1,039,643 | +0.1% |
| Expenses | $1,137,715 | $1,113,432 | +0.0% |
| Net Income | $27,076 | $-73,789 | -1.4% |
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Sign In| Name | Title | Hours/Week | Role | Reportable Comp | Other Comp | Total |
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| N/A | Executive Director | 002.00 |
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$79,388 | $0 | $79,388 |
| Rachael Orose | Executive Director | 040.00 |
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$53,125 | $1,062 | $54,187 |
| N/A | Director of Finance | 006.00 |
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$1,108 | $0 | $1,108 |
| Meredith Baratz | Chair | 002.00 |
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$0 | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Dubick | Vice Chair | 002.00 |
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$0 | $0 | $0 |
| Karen Silberman term ended January | Immediate Past Chair | 002.00 |
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$0 | $0 | $0 |
| Karen Malin | Secretary | 002.00 |
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$0 | $0 | $0 |
| Nick Giordano | Treasurer | 002.00 |
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$0 | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Yonemitsu July 2024-November 20 | Director | 002.00 |
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| Laura Galinson resigned May 2025 | Director | 002.00 |
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| Collen Smiley | Director | 002.00 |
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| Bijan Nowroozian | Director | 002.00 |
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| Tammy Carpowich | Director | 002.00 |
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| Brian Fidler | Director | 002.00 |
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| Tami Daiber-Hirst | Director | 002.00 |
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| Julia Loman | Director | 002.00 |
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| Rick Seidenwurm elected January 202 | Director | 002.00 |
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| Jeffra Becknell elected January 202 | Director | 002.00 |
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| Kelsey Vasko elected January 2025 | Director | 002.00 |
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| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Net Income |
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| 2025 | $1,164,791 | $1,137,715 | $3,017,556 | $27,076 |
| 2024 | $1,039,643 | $1,113,432 | $2,975,175 | $-73,789 |
| 2023 | $3,097,969 | $1,000,750 | $3,020,301 | $2,097,219 |
| 2022 | $1,306,134 | $789,897 | $931,415 | $516,237 |
| 2021 | $1,017,843 | $808,587 | $432,127 | $209,256 |
| 2020 | $713,507 | $676,722 | $251,119 | $36,785 |
| 2019 | $686,740 | $800,281 | $198,428 | $-113,541 |
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