· Public charity
Proliteracy Worldwide
Every adult has a right to literacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 80 grants below total $502,176 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,165,288 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $663,112 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k76 grants · $455k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $12,625 |
| CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE LITERACY | $12,000 |
| VITA EDUCATION SERVICES | $10,000 |
| WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS | $7,725 |
| ANTIOCH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,975 |
| GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,725 |
| SALINAS ADULT SCHOOL | $6,250 |
| YSLETA ISD-COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $6,250 |
| THE BRANCH OF NASHVILLE INC | $6,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL SONORAN DESERT ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| NORTHSHORE COLLEGE ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ESPERANZA CENTER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $6,000 |
| ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| LACLEDE LITERACY COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMUSKINGUM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL2× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue -49% · 36% of their budget
- GCGRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue -45%
- COCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $43k · revenue -11%
Funded once
- FCFLORIDA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCone grant, 2017 · $92k · revenue -100%
- VAVALLEY ADULT SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $31k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY & PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of The Literacy Center is to provide literacy services and educational support to individuals and families seeking to acquire the skills needed to attain personal and employment goals.
The Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.
To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.
The Learning Center supports adults in their pursuit of an educational path to more confident and effective living. For 42 years, TLC has empowered adults for effective personal lives, productive employment, and positive contribution to…
Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.
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.
The literacy alliance of northeast florida's mission is to improve the self-sufficients, economic mobility, and quality of life for adults through increasing skills and education levels with formal instruction and volunteer-based tutoring.
To transform the lives of adult learners through the power of literacy education and advocacy.
The mission of the organization is to provide adults with opportunities to improve basic skills.
Ozark literacy council offers free literacy programs and resources in northwest arkansas in order to build a welcoming, inclusive and empowered community.
To promote non-traditional educational choices that promote lifelong learning for adult residents and their families who seek to improve their literacy skills in order to successfully realize their full potential as workers and family…
To provide instruction for adults in a literacy-rich environment designed to enhance reading, writing, computation and technology skills supportive of future employment opportunities and increase public awareness of life-long learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Coalition of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. 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.
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 23 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 170 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FLORIDA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY & PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 214 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREVERDADS ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIMENSION LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YSLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Utopia Resource Center Greater NY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LITERACY ↗
- Who funds ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds English Skills Learning Center ↗
- Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds VITA EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Wish You Well Foundation · Gofundmeorg · Older Adults Technology Services · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Yelp Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · New York Life Foundation
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 organization 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.
- Refugee Assistance Alliance Inc — 92% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Portland Literacy Council Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.