Reading & Math, Inc.

Reading & Math, Inc., doing business as Ampact, is a Minneapolis-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that serves as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of AmeriCorps federal grants, operating evidence-based national service programs across education, public health, housing, and social services. Ampact has received $237.5 million in combined obligations across 42 federal awards over the past decade, with 24% as prime recipient awards and 76% as sub-awards flowing through state AmeriCorps commissions and partner agencies. The organization competes and receives awards in the AmeriCorps State and National program space (CFDA 94.006) as its primary federal revenue stream.

Ampact's capability portfolio centers on deploying AmeriCorps members to deliver high-dosage academic intervention in literacy and numeracy to underserved K–8 populations, peer support and recovery coaching for individuals with substance use disorders, housing navigation and support for people experiencing homelessness, public health capacity building and COVID-19 response, refugee resettlement services, climate change mitigation initiatives, and senior independent living support. As prime recipient, Ampact holds direct AmeriCorps State and National grants totaling $28.4 million obligated (August 2026 award of $7.554 million through July 2029; September 2025 award of $20.847 million through September 2028), both from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management. Representative sub-recipient awards flow through ServeMinnesota (nine sub-awards managing 500, 544, 970, 125, and other AmeriCorps member cohorts deployed to Minnesota reading, math, recovery, and housing programs); through Illinois Department of Human Services (five sub-awards); through Wisconsin Department of Administration (three sub-awards); and through state education and labor departments in Idaho, Mississippi, Iowa, and Florida. Each sub-award specifies member deployment targets and measurable outcomes — for example, an August 2026 ServeMinnesota sub-award tasks Ampact with deploying 500 AmeriCorps Reading Corps members across northern Minnesota schools to serve 9,534 students K–8, matched with $5.2 million in public and private funding; a parallel August 2026 sub-award for 970 members focuses the Twin Cities metro area; an Iowa sub-award (July 2026) deploys 92 Reading Corps members to serve 1,840 K–3 students.

Customer concentration is highly specialized and limited. All 36 of Ampact's prime and most significant sub-awards flow from the Corporation for National and Community Service (100% of AmeriCorps awards); three additional awards come from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; one award each from the Department of Education and its Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Ampact operates no federal contracts, IDVs, or contract vehicles — the organization's federal revenue stream is entirely grant-based, channeled through AmeriCorps and related federal social-service programs.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to eleven in 2026, reflecting Ampact's scaling of member deployment across multiple states. Two awards are scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete cliff risk. Ampact's sub-recipient posture means the organization flows funding and operates programs on behalf of state and local AmeriCorps commissions rather than competing directly as a prime contractor; this structure anchors Ampact's revenue to sustained multi-year federal AmeriCorps appropriations and state-level enrollment decisions. Geographic scope spans Minnesota (primary administrative hub with the largest member concentration), Idaho, Georgia, Mississippi, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Virginia, California, Florida, New York, and other states where AmeriCorps member deployment operates.