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Kalamazoo Literacy Council

The KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL (klc) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to enhancing the lives of adults by improving their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension skills. The klc was founded in 1974 and is the only organization in kalamazoo county with the exclusive purpose of providing free basic literacy…

$56k
Granted FY2023
4
Itemized grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$51k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$27,500
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative$27,5001n/a
Child Care Resource and Referral of Kalamazoo$10,00010%
Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency$8,0001n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Kalamazoo Mi$5,75010%

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About Kalamazoo Literacy Council

How much does Kalamazoo Literacy Council give?
Kalamazoo Literacy Council reported 4 itemized grants totaling $51,250, out of $55,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Kalamazoo Literacy Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (31%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Kalamazoo Literacy Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative ($28k), Child Care Resource and Referral of Kalamazoo ($10k), Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency ($8k).
Where is Kalamazoo Literacy Council based?
Kalamazoo Literacy Council is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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