Michigan · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO
CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,000 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Center for Sound Literacy Foundatio does
Mission
To receive and administer a fund exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, scientific or literary purposes and to pursue these purposes either through direct operations or by making grants and contributions to organization that qualify as exempt organizations. The specific purposes, activities and objectives will be focused primarily on education and advancing literacy, schools and making grants to educational organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Funded an intensive literacy program for high-risk and underpriviledged students and provided hands-on support to read at grade level or above.
$2,321,401 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,321,401.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $6.5M (+157%).
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: 2021 13% · 2023 4% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO’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
CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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 CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
20%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Autocam Medical Device Holdings LLC · partnership
- Autocam Medical Finance LLC · partnership
- Kennedy Acquisition Inc · corp_trust
- Autocam Management Company · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO: 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 CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO?
- CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,000 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,510,000 in grants to CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO?
- DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SOUND LITERACY FOUNDATIO 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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