· Public charity
Virginia Literacy Foundation
The foundation's purpose is to promote literacy amoung the residents of virginia by supporting public literacy programs, enhancing literacy initiatives and encouraging statewide literacy awareness, and to make grants and aid to support this goal.
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 14 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,060 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,060 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKYLINE LITERACY INC | $10,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY | $10,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY | $10,000 |
| LITERACY FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| BEACON FOR ADULT LITERACY | $10,000 |
| LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE LITERACY | $10,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLEALBEMARLE | $10,000 |
| THE READ CENTER | $7,500 |
| CULPEPER LITERACY COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF WINCHESTER | $7,500 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRY | $7,500 |
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, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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 — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LCLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +58%
- SLSKYLINE LITERACY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +27%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- LILITERACY INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $21k
- LFLITERACY FOR LIFE WILLIAMSBURGone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Programs include individual and small group tutoring, english as a second language community classes, workplace english classes, and parent english classes in local elementary schools.
To teach adults to read, write and speak english.
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.
To provide tutoring to adults in basic reading and writing free of charge. the organization also provides tutoring to adults in english as a second language.
The mission of the organization is to provide adults with opportunities to improve basic skills.
To provide social and economic empowerment through culturally compassionate english language education.
Lvsc's mission is to promote literacy throughout the community by providing student-centered tutoring and literacy programs for adults so that they may function more effectively in their daily lives. continued schedule o.
Literacy Volunteers of Morris County, believes that the ability to read and write and to comprehend and speak English is critical to personal freedom and the maintenance of a democratic society. Our mission is to provide free instruction…
To promote literacy by performing tutoring services for adults who are not able to read, write and communicate in english.
The Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.
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 improve the lives of adults and their families through literacy education that teaches people to read, write, and speak english.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville Albemarle and the most unlike its peers is United Community Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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 Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LITERACY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS - WINCHESTER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CULPEPER LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Sentara Health · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Virginia Literacy Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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