Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Beyond Literacy
Beyond Literacy (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,950 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,202,544). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Beyond Literacy does
Mission
Beyond Literacy's mission is to unleash the power of literacy to improve lives. Through a wide range of literacy services, including reading, writing, math, life, technology, and work skills, Beyond Literacy helps a diverse population of learners meet their needs and achieve their personal and employment-related goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult education: Beyond Literacy's adult education classes improve the literacy and workforce skills of our learners. Learners are provided counseling and case management that help them reduce or eliminate barriers, and transition to postsecondary education and/or employment.
$5,519,960 spent$330,962 earned by the program100% of program spendingEnglish as a second language: Beyond Literacy holds english as a second language (esl) classes in partnership with the free library of philadelphia and other community partners throughout philadelphia. The program incorporates technology and offers multiple levels of basic english and citizenship preparation, as well as english for work and english for postsecondary education.
Family literacy: Beyond Literacy partners with elementary schools in philadelphia to provide family literacy english as second language services to immigrant parents of children attending the schools. In addition to teaching the parent english, these services help parents communicate with the school and support their children's learning outside of school. The program also facilitates a time each week for parents and children to learn together. The learning of technology, self-management, problem solving, interpersonal relations, decision making, lifelong learning skills, health and financial literacy are included in all of the above programs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,519,960.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $4.0M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 68% · 2019 71% · 2020 72% · 2021 80% · 2022 64% · 2023 71% · 2024 60% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kimmell PROCTOR MED
President/CEO
Board chair
Julie Jones
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $287k → $385k.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Beyond Literacy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Beyond Literacy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Beyond Literacy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 57% · 2021 63% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — 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
55% of Beyond Literacy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
51% of Beyond Literacy'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding Beyond Literacy receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $395k on record.
- Department of Labor$395k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Beyond Literacy
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Beyond Literacy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Beyond Literacy?
- Beyond Literacy (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,950 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,202,544). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Beyond Literacy have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,021,950 in grants to Beyond Literacy, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Beyond Literacy?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,202,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Beyond Literacy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Beyond Literacy →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing