North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,146 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,722). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $779k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Chatham County Literacy Council Inc does
Mission
To help adults, living or working in chatham county, north carolina, acquire the literacy and educational skills they need to function successfully in society
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Chatham literacy transforms lives in the following three areas: 1) traditional literacy - in which we help adlults improve their basic education such as reading, wrighting, and math; to prepare for the ged or high school diploma; to enroll in a vocational defree; or to ready themselves for training opportunities to advance their work. 2) civics and language literacy - in which we teach english language learners how to speak, read, and write, and understand english; we prepare adults for the citizenship exam. 3) life skills literacy - in which we prepare adults for expectations and norms in todays workplace; we do that by offering workforce soft skills training, computer literacy and financial literacy in chatham county (per 2016) census) 13.1% of the population over 25 years old do not have a high school degree and 11.7% of adults live below the poverty line, chatham liteacy is an established, growing organization that is providing much needed free and individualized adult literacy services within chatham county. Tutoring is helping to build confidence and pride in our adult learners.. Not oly for themselves but also for their community.
$306,072 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $306,072.
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 2024 to 2025, from $359k to $478k (+33%).
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: 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 6% · 2021 27% · 2022 10% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Vicki Newell
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Nass
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $39k → $163k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
83% 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 CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 42% · 2019 28% · 2020 47% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 31% — 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
62% of CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
69% of CHATHAM 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. $303k 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.
Organizations like CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,146 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,722). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $779,146 in grants to CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $220,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATHAM 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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