Program areas at Gaining Ground
Family Engagement: Gaining Ground partners with parents, guardians and family members to provide guided programs and project-based units and literacy camps. These allow the students to use their voices and lead themselves and others to reach their literacy goals.
Out-of-School Programs: This includes after-school, summer, and the Book Bus. The Book Bus made over 200 individual stops in neighborhoods and partnering schools, providing education on literacy, playing with bubbles, and eating popsicles. It offered a mobile method for getting books into schools and kids' hands in a fun and educational way.
Home Libraries: Gaining Ground works in partnership with Tulsa area schools to build students' home libraries. Over 75,000 were provided to families in 2023.
Who funds Gaining Ground
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at Gaining Ground
| Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
|---|
| Lisa Shotts | Executive Director | $57,634 | 2024-06-13 |
| Rita Long | Program Director / Vicee - President and Secretary / Member | $0 | 2023-07-31 |
| Nikki Vardaman | Operations Manager | $24,375 | 2023-07-31 |
| Lynn Minden | President | $0 | 2023-07-31 |
| Shagah Zakerion | Treasurer | $0 | 2023-07-31 |
| ...and 3 more key personnel |
Financials for Gaining Ground
| Revenues | FYE 12/2022 | FYE 12/2021 | % Change |
|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $771,644 | $454,203 | 69.9% |
| Program services | $0 | $0 | - |
| Investment income and dividends | $0 | $0 | - |
| Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
| Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $0 | $0 | - |
| Total revenues | $771,644 | $454,203 | 69.9% |
Organizations like Gaining Ground
| Organization | Type | Location | Revenue |
|---|
| Recording Library of West Texas | 501(c)(3) | Midland, TX | $349,545 |
| Nabu Global | 501(c)(3) | New York, NY | $3,205,458 |
| Book' Em | 501(c)(3) | Nashville, TN | $970,966 |
| Promising Pages | 501(c)(3) | Charlotte, NC | $909,239 |
| Book Trust | 501(c)(3) | Denver, CO | $3,572,630 |
| Cleveland Kids' Book Bank | 501(c)(3) | Cleveland, OH | $625,825 |
| Read To Grow | 501(c)(3) | Branford, CT | $1,444,347 |
| Book Trails | 501(c)(3) | Steamboat Springs, CO | $892,133 |
| Tree House Books | 501(c)(3) | Philadelphia, PA | $1,199,561 |
| Madison Reading Project | 501(c)(3) | Madison, WI | $1,015,106 |
Data update history
August 15, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2023
August 11, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 4 new personnel
August 10, 2024
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
November 25, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
Nonprofit Types
SchoolsMedia and communications organizationsCharities
Issues
Education
Characteristics
Provides grantsFundraising eventsTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
- Address
- 1151 Elgin Ave
- Tulsa, OK 74120
- Metro area
- Tulsa, OK
- County
- Tulsa County, OK
- Website URL
- gaininggroundliteracy.org/Â
- Phone
- (918) 850-2062
IRS details
- EIN
- 82-2302781
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 2017
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- B70: Libraries, Library Science
- NAICS code, primary
- 5111: Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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