Michigan · Nonprofit
CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION
CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,181,970 to it, the largest being COCHRAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($986,669). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $393k
What Capital Area Literacy Coalition does
Mission
Promoting literacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Basic skills tutoring - tutoring of adults and ged preparation one-to-one or in small groups
$127,131 spent$40 earned by the program60% of program spendingFamily school partnership - instruction to teens on career planning and tutoring children
$84,754 spent$937 earned by the program40% of program spendingOther
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,885.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $659k (−65%).
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 3% · 2018 7% · 2019 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Sheila Potter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $26k → $102k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 93% · 2019 93% · 2020 90% · 2021 84% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION: 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 CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION?
- CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,181,970 to it, the largest being COCHRAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($986,669). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,181,970 in grants to CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION?
- COCHRAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $986,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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