· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLEALBEMARLE | $10,000 |
| LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE LITERACY | $10,000 |
| THE READ CENTER | $7,500 |
| CULPEPER LITERACY COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF WINCHESTER | $7,500 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRY | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS - WINCHESTER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CULPEPER LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Literacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Literacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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