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Wisconsin Literacy Inc

Changing lives by strengthening literacy statewide.

$747k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $532k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $208k
$45,754
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN HERITAGE INC$53,514
PEOPLE OF PROGRESSION$52,438
POINTTERS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$51,872
NEW HMONG PROFESSIONALS INC$50,000
BURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF WISCONSIN$48,770
MULTICULTURAL COALITION INC$47,024
A&S UNLIMITED SOLUTIONS$46,595
COMMUNITY CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS INC$45,897
HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION$45,754
MASON TEMPLE CHURCH$44,664
GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$44,376
ECARES AGENCY$43,636
EBENEZER FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER$40,219
BLACK AND BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC$33,389
RACINE LITERACY COUNCIL$30,854
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POINTTERS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $52k → 6%GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $44k → 17%HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $46k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
The Literacy Connection

The Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.

Education
2
Wisconsin Literacy Inc

Changing lives by strengthening literacy statewide.

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3
The Whatcom Literacy Council

To teach adults to read, write and speak english.

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4
Literacy Kansas City

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

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5
Literacy Volunteers of Cayuga Co Inc

To eradicate illiteracy in cayuga county to create a more productive community. volunteer tutors are trained to help people improve their reading and writing skills and to assist those learning english as a second language.

Education
6
Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center

The CMLC is a community-based center that promotes cultural understanding fosters connections and provides essential services such as English Learning Immigration Support and community-led educational workshops. Our focus is aimed towards…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Community Education Project

To provide english as a second language, adult literacy, and family literacy instruction, as well as other educational counseling, assessment, referrals, college transition, and other vocational and educational services to latino adults…

Education
9
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester Inc

To provide social and economic empowerment through culturally compassionate english language education.

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10
Cultural Diversity Resources

The vision and mission of cultural diversity resources is "building communities that value inclusion through serving as the intercultural bridge that strengthens bonds, educates, and empowers low income communities."

Civil Rights
11
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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12
Literacy Source a Community Learning Center

Literacy source provides accessible, high-quality foundational education for adults to create lasting opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. our vision is that all adults in king county have literacy skills to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Green Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Community Outreach Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

37 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
19/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF WISCONSIN INCORPORATED: $48,770 · OtherBURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF WISCONSIN INC…A&S UNLIMITED SOLUTIONS: $46,595 · OtherA&S UNLIMITED SOLUTIONSMASON TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $44,664 · OtherMASON TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTECARES AGENCY INC: $43,636 · OtherECARES AGENCY INCEBENEZER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC: $40,219 · OtherEBENEZER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INCRacine Literacy Council Inc: $30,854 · OtherRacine Literacy Council IncHEPHATHA LUTHERAN CHURCH: $27,404 · OtherHEPHATHA LUTHERAN CHURCHAFRICAN HERITAGE INC: $53,514 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN HERITAGE INCPeople of Progression Inc: $52,438 · Arts & CulturePeople of Progression I…Northeast Wisconsin Hmong Profes: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNortheast Wisconsin Hmo…Community Initiatives of Wisconsin: $51,872 · Human ServicesCommunity Initiatives…Hmong American Friendship Association Inc: $45,754 · Human ServicesHmong American Friend…GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $44,376 · Human ServicesGREATER GALILEE COMMU…MULTICULTURAL COALITION INC: $47,024 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS INCORPORATED: $45,897 · EducationBLACK & BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC: $33,389 · Crime & LegalFOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICES INC: $17,998 · HealthLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $14,979 · Employment
Other$282,142Arts & Culture$155,952Human Services$142,002Community Improvement$47,024Education$45,897Crime & Legal$33,389Health$17,998Employment$14,979

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFRICAN HERITAGE INC: $53,514 over 2y, 12% of budgetPeople of Progression Inc: $52,438 over 2y, 12% of budgetNortheast Wisconsin Hmong Profes: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMULTICULTURAL COALITION INC: $47,024 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS INCORPORATED: $45,897 over 3y, 28% of budgetGREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $44,376 over 2y, 11% of budgetBLACK & BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC: $33,389 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetRacine Literacy Council Inc: $30,854 over 3y, 12% of budgetFOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICES INC: $17,998 over 2y, 15% of budgetLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $14,979 over 2y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Otto Bremer TrustHerbert H Kohl Charit…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Dollar General Litera…Community Foundation …Greater Green Bay Com…United Way Fox Cities…Basic Needs Giving Pa…Hunger Task Force IncUnited Way of Greater…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI37.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · Hunger Task Force Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wisconsin Literacy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Literacy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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