How much did PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

ardmore

2020

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2021

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2022

oaklandbelieveinvestmentdistrictlearningstrongensure

2023

greenvillelearninglead

2024

skillssolutionseconomicemploymentenglish languagepopulationsparticipate

2025

adultseslreadinghigh-qualitycarenon-profitworkforce

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

03FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k64 grants · $400k
$10k–50k13 grants · $205k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE HELMS ACADEMY$26,800
UYGHUR RIGHTS ADVOCACY PROJECT$25,125
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$18,750
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY WEST PLAINS$18,500
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$15,875
UTOPIA RESOURCE CENTER$15,125
CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL$14,747
GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION$12,425
MY AMERICAN DREAM$12,150
GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,665
ENGLISH SKILLS LEARNING CENTER$10,073
MAJDAL CENTER$10,000
YSLETA ISD-COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER$9,375
WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS$8,200

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 (FY18–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$219k · 8 repeat orgs$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$219k

$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+7%

Still filing today

75%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

MA
MY AMERICAN DREAM
2× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +101%
GL
GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +12%
F
FOREVERDADS
2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +110%

Funded once

VA
VALLEY ADULT SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $31k
LC
LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2023 · $13k
TC
TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
one grant, 2022 · $13k

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.

Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc

To assist adults and children to acquire the english literacy skills and education necessary to improve their quality of life and enhance the entire community.

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Laurel County Literacy Council Inc

The mission of Laurel County Adult Education is to provide adults with the opportunity to improve their basic skills in order to achieve personal, educational, and vocation goals.

Education

Literacy Council of Medina County Inc

The Literacy Council of Medina County, Inc.s mission is to help individuals 18 and older to improve basic reading, math and problem solving and also to help individuals learn English as a second language.

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Tutoring English to Advance Change

Provide adults with literacy programs to enrich lives.

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The Literacy Council of Southwest La

The Literacy Council of Southwest LA is a community-based, non-profit organization that provides instructional programs to improve educational skill levels in Southwest Louisiana and works to increase public awareness of literacy related…

Education

Literacy Council of Norristown

The literacy council of norristown supports adult learners to learn reading, writing, and math, and to prepare for their ged, learn english, and become citizens.

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Literacy Council of Reading-Berks

To eradicate illiteracy in Berks County by teaching people the vital reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills needed to improve their quality of life and enable more productive employment and community citizenship.

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Literacy Council of Frederick County

To provide adults with essential literacy skills for english learners and native english speakers.

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Simpson County Literacy Council Inc

The organization provides small group and one-on-one instruction to adults in literacy, english, high school equivalency preparation and digital literacy.

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Literacy Council of Central Alabama

To improve the lives of adults and their families through literacy education that teaches people to read, write, and speak english.

Education

Literacy Kansas City

To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.

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Literacy Volunteers of Fort Bend

Lcfbc helps families by raising adult literacy skills, thereby improving economic outlook and quality of life. lcfbc is dedicated to combating functional illiteracy created by the inability to read, write or speak english. programs include…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware County Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/99

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,466

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

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

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)

59/60

Grantees still filing

43/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$514,314Education$150,140Human Services$111,500Arts & Culture$66,630Employment$47,000Community Improvement$44,055Youth Development$15,125

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.

Dollar General Literacy FoundationTN45.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Wish You Well Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: MUSKINGUM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113803654 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 MUSKINGUM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL, 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 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
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 Proliteracy Worldwide?

Find your warmest path to Proliteracy Worldwide 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.

PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE

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

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Proliteracy Worldwide?

More from the funding graph

PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE

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

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Proliteracy Worldwide?

More from the funding graph