Kentucky · Nonprofit
CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING
CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING (Kentucky) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,143 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND ($305,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $251k
What Carnegie Literacy Center Inc Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning does
Mission
To empower people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's & family programs - 6,635 youth participated in programs that encourage families to learn together or children to learn new things. We primarily offered programming in person, though some was offered virtually, including some tutoring sessions. The year-round tutoring program served 275 struggling learners in grades k-12 through weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions that helped them improve in reading, writing, or math. Children found that learning can be fun in educational classes involving reading, writing, creative writing, math, and other topics. The family fun and learning program offered free books and fun educational activities around a central theme. Our storytimes in social service sites such as head start programs benefitted under-resourced children age 5 and under and often included author visits and free books. The carnegie center provided youth meeting authors programs in title I schools, which involved a visit by a published author and free copies of the featured book. High school female and nonbinary writers in the young writers project attended intensive writing workshops and gave public readings. We continued our third year with the lexington youth poet…
$526,802 spent44% of program spendingAdult classes - each season, we offered a new line-up of classes in writing, world languages, business topics, and others in-person, virtually, or as a hybrid. Some classes took place in partnership with our outreach locations and partners, including a library, a local grocery, and the senior citizens center. Members of the kentucky black writers collaborative attended classes at no cost. Our annual three-day writing conference featured award-winning author meg shaffer as the keynote speaker, along with pitches to/feedback from literary agents and sessions delivered by several award-winning authors/writing instructors. The carnegie center author academy provided one-on-one mentoring, special workshops, and other support over a 9-month period while the poetry gauntlet pushed participants to generate 100 poems inside of a year. We offered one-on-one writer mentoring year-round for individuals hoping to someday be published, as well as people needing to improve business-related writing skills and documents. Manuscript consultations helped writers take their books to the next level. We served 1,868 adults in these programs. A majority of revenue came from grant funds and contributions…
$461,748 spent$215,364 earned by the program38% of program spendingArts engagement programs - the cornerstone of the center's arts engagement programs were literary art programs, and we promoted kentucky writers through all that we did. Carnegie provided readings through the kentucky great writers series and say it loud series which were available as recorded videos on carnegie's facebook page and youtube channel. The kentucky black writers collaborative also hosted monthly burn the mic events and the black & lit book club. This year, we inducted naomi wallace, david dick, ronald eller, frank x walker, and crystal wilkinson into the kentucky writers hall of fame during a ceremony at the historic kentucky theater. We helped emerging writers become noticed through writing contests in a variety of forms and genres. We also continued our "homegrown authors" booth at the lexington farmers market with kentucky authors on site to sell and sign their books. Our carnegie classics event celebrated the classic murder mystery, murder on the orient express. Most of these programs and events were offered at no cost or for a low fee. The carnegie center was also involved with several events tied to lexington's 25oth anniversary celebration 250lex, offering…
$214,648 spent$14,699 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,203,198.
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 2024 to 2025, from $630k to $346k (−45%).
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 16% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 11% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Jennifer Mattox
Executive director
Board chair
Veda Stewart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose $71k → $170k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING’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
CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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
56% of CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
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.
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING?
- CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING (Kentucky) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,143 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND ($305,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,377,143 in grants to CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING?
- THE WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 30 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