North Carolina · Nonprofit
Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte
Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,197,942 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($748,750). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte does
Mission
The mission of ALP is to improve the reading, writing, and spelling skills of young, aspiring readers in under-resourced communities by providing free, long-term, one-on-one instruction from highly trained tutors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Augustine Literacy Project Charlotte (ALP) was originally founded in 2005 as a mission of St. Peters Episcopal Church and became a separate and independent organization in 2018. Following our mission, we improve the reading, writing and spelling skills of under resourced students significantly behind grade level in literacy skills. We train and support volunteer tutors who provide free, long-term, one-to-one instruction to students using a research-based phonics curriculum. Our volunteers tutor primarily in Charlotte-Mecklenburg area elementary schools, working with first- through third-graders at Title I schools. Volunteer tutors receive training and ALP materials, and each tutor provides one-on-one tutoring two times per week to a child during the school day or in an after school enrichment program. The relationships that develop during our long-term, one-on-one tutoring approach provides benefits to both the children and the tutors: In order to maximize our ability to connect volunteers and students, ALP offers both in-person and virtual mode to deliver our lesson plan. As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, our community and our other partners rise to meet the challenge of a large…
$1,813,642 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,813,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+27%).
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.
99% of Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $15k → $671k.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 54% · 2021 49% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
71% of Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte?
- Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,197,942 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($748,750). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,197,942 in grants to Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $748,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 37 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