Virginia · 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.
- $143k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $130k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Virginia Literacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $130k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $95k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $98k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $98k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $105k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $85k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $78k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Skyline Literacy Inc | $72,500 | 9 | 4% |
| United Community Ministries Inc | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rita Welsh Adult Literacy Program Inc | $67,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville Albemarle | $65,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Loudoun Literacy Council Inc | $62,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Blue Ridge Literacy | $50,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Reading and Education for Adult Development | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Literacy Volunteers - Winchester Area Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Commonwealth Catholic Charities | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Skyline Literacy Inc | $72,500 | 9 | 4% |
| United Community Ministries Inc | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rita Welsh Adult Literacy Program Inc | $67,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville Albemarle | $65,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Loudoun Literacy Council Inc | $62,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Blue Ridge Literacy | $50,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Reading and Education for Adult Development | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Literacy Volunteers - Winchester Area Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Commonwealth Catholic Charities | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley | $25,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Peninsula Literacy Council Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington Inc | $22,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Bridge Ministry | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Culpeper Literacy Council | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Literacy Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Virginia Literacy Foundation
- How much does Virginia Literacy Foundation give?
- Virginia Literacy Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $130,000, out of $143,060 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Virginia Literacy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Virginia Literacy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ($90k), Skyline Literacy Inc ($73k), United Community Ministries Inc ($70k).
- Does Virginia Literacy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Literacy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Nora Roberts Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Literacy Foundation based?
- Virginia Literacy Foundation is based in VA.
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