Keller founded the charitable organization in 2009 to donate one million books to in-need children by the time she turned eighteen, a task she accomplished at age thirteen.
By 2024, Read Indeed has donated nearly four million books to underprivileged youth in each U.S. State and seventeen countries.
[8][9] In the summer of 2021, Keller traveled to London and Oxford in order to conduct research on the relationship between themes present in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and the aesthetics of English Catholicism during the 1800s.
[5][3][4] She was inspired to do so after becoming deeply upset when told by her mother that not every child in the world had access to books.
[3] Shortly thereafter, Keller founded Read Indeed[5][3][4] with the goal of collecting and distributing one million books to those in need by the time she became an adult.
[5][3] In the first year her organization, which was based in her family's garage, collected and donated 70,000 books to low-income children.
[4] Following her matriculation to the University of Notre Dame, Keller resigned as CEO of Read Indeed in order to allow her younger brother, Ryan, to serve in that role.
[20] In September 2015, Keller was selected as an honoree for the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.