Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

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Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

Q: How much did Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy grant in FY2025?

Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy reported 24 grants totaling $1,468,784 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Q: Where is Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy based?

Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy is based in MD.

Program Service Accomplishments:Form 990, Part III, Line 4a:Each year, MCAEL awards grants to support adult english language learning programs in Montgomery County, with funds provided by the Montgomery County Government.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$315k

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$2.3MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$1.6MReligion$115kArts & Culture$91kPhilanthropy$88kInternational$22kYouth Development$7kPublic Benefit$7kOther$3.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mentalrockville

2020

rockvillemental

2021

rockvillemental

2022

mental

2023

vietnamese mutualmutual mvmamvma dedicateddedicated advancingadvancing vietnamesevietnamese metropolitanmetropolitan direct

2025

achievevietnamese mutualmutual mvmamvma dedicateddedicated advancingadvancing vietnamesevietnamese metropolitan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $52k
$10k–50k10 grants · $225k
$50k–250k6 grants · $874k
$250k+1 grant · $315k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$542k

Total assets

Largest grants

Jewish Social Service Agency$314,834
Classroom 2 Community$233,527
CASA Inc$220,233
Community Reach of Montgomery Count$160,514
Seneca Creek Community Church$99,008
Catholic Charities of the Archdioce$88,696
Ana A Brito Foundation Inc$71,648
Ethiopian Community Center Inc$46,000
Vietnamese American Services$31,980
Solutions in Hometown Connections$25,000
The Briggs Center for Faith and Act$20,000
IMPACT Silver Spring$20,000
Identity Inc$20,000
Chinese Culture and Community Servi$20,000
Covenant Life Church Inc$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.5M · 25 repeat orgs$391k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+6449%

Still filing today

76%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

LC
LITERACY COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY CO
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
FS
FAMILY SERVICES INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +130%
CASA OF MARYLAND - WORKERS CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +139%

Funded once

SW
SERVICE WORKERS TRAINING AND EDUCATgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +6449% · 31% of their budget
IC
ISLAMIC CENTER OF MARYLAND
one grant, 2021 · $8k
CO
CITY OF LIGHTS HELPING HANDS ESOL
one grant, 2023 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Maryland Turkish American

To promote intercultural and interfaith dialogue and friendship through educational and cultural activities, and building stronger bridges within our community to get to know one another.

Arts & Culture

Multicultural Spanish Speaking Providers

MSSPA is a community-driven Latina association of over 1000 Child Development educators, program owners, directors in the District of Columbia. The Multicultural Spanish Speaking Providers Association (MSSPA) is a community stakeholder…

Education

Spanish-Speaking Community of Maryland Inc

To provide direct services and work with public and private organizations throughout maryland to ensure the most vulnerable residents receive essential guidance for nutrition, health care, education, housing, employment and immigration…

Human Services

Chinese Information and Service Center

We support immigrants and their families by creating opportunities for them to succeed, while honoring their heritage.

Human Services

Many Languages One Voice

MLOVs mission is to foster leadership and provide tools for greater civic participation of immigrants in DC who do not speak English as their primary language in solutions that impact their lives.

Civil Rights

Asian American Council Servicesinc

To support Low-income families Women Minorities Refugees and Immigrants to excel in life by educating inspiring and empowering them to reach their full potentials and achieve their dreams.

Human Services

Chinese Community Center

Community Improvement

Corvallis Multicultural Lit Center

Multicultural educational and resources.

Community Improvement

Mcc Pta Educational Programs Inc

To enrich the lives of Pre-K through middle school students in the fields of STEM and World Languages while providing competencies to succeed in the 21st century with a particular focus on serving students whose access to enrichment…

Education

Ethiopian Community Services and Development Council Inc

ECSDC is a community-based organization located in Ward 1 (1816 12th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001), that fosters the well-being of African immigrants in DC, by providing them with the skills needed to be successful. Our target…

Human Services

Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)

Education

Chevy Chase-Bethesda Community Children's

CCBC Children's Center provides classes and learning activities for toddlers and pre-school children in a happy, stimulating, and safe environment.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Identity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bender Jcc of Greater Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

12%

883/7,528

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

19/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,007,063Education$2,341,177Human Services$1,716,524Health$1,554,609Religion$115,000Arts & Culture$90,900Philanthropy$87,825

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Primary Care Coalition Of · United Way of the National Capital Area · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Nora Roberts Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Ana A Brito Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462712128 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Ana A Brito Foundation Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy?

Find your warmest path to Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy?

More from the funding graph

Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy?

More from the funding graph