Virginia · Nonprofit
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,441 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou does
Mission
Adult Literacy
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
ACE has prided itself on teaching illiterate adults to read. In the July 1 2024-June 30, 2025 fiscal year Ace mentored 84 adult students.
$18,615 spentof which $17,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $33k to $20k (−40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharon McDonald
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $13k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 95% · 2019 74% · 2020 74% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
77% of Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou?
- Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,441 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($87,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,441 in grants to Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing