North Carolina · Nonprofit
BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,562 to it, the largest being BURKE COUNTY SMART START INC ($231,611). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Burke County Literacy Council Inc does
Mission
To teach adults and their families to read and improve their literacy skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Recruit, train and support tutors to provide free literacy tutoring for students from community, and provide books for those learning to read.
$28,806 spent33% of program spendingProvide classes for immigrants who are seeking to obtain u.s. Citizenship.
$28,806 spent33% of program spendingProvide classes for non-english speaking students to learn to read, write and speak english.
$28,805 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,417.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $143k to $179k (+25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Phileria Ann Washington
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $51k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC’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
BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 66% · 2022 93% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC'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. $27k 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.
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In North Carolina
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 BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: 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 BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,562 to it, the largest being BURKE COUNTY SMART START INC ($231,611). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $342,562 in grants to BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- BURKE COUNTY SMART START INC is the largest funder on record, with $231,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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