Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC
CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,222 to it, the largest being INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Classmates Literacy Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of classmates literacy foundation ("clf") is to improve literacy outcomes for learners of all ages and backgrounds by providing teachers with structured literacy training in the slant system. Slant system for structured language training is a research based,orton- gillingham, multi-sensory approach to reading instruction, which empowers educators with the knowledge to impact lives by providing students with the life-changing gift of literacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Classmates literacy foundation (clf) works to close literacy gaps for students who face significant barriers to reading success. The organization provides structured literacy professional development and classroom resources grounded in the science of reading, enabling educators to deliver effective, evidence-based instruction. Founded to confront the deep disparities in reading outcomes, clf prioritizes students with the greatest literacy needs, including those with dyslexia and other learning differences, particularly in under-resourced and under represented communities. Classmates literacy foundations teacher training and classroom support program eliminates barriers to effective reading instruction by providing structured literacy professional development and classroom materials to educators serving students with the greatest literacy needs, including those with dyslexia and other learning differences. The program prioritizes under-resourced schools and historically marginalized communities, equipping teachers with the skills and tools needed to deliver evidence- based instruction. In 2025, we provided 45 teachers serving 1,572 students/year with 1,300 hours of accredited…
$76,491 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $25k to $26k (+4%).
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.
100% of CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION 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
CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC.
“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
52% of CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,804 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION 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 CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC?
- CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,222 to it, the largest being INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $28,222 in grants to CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC?
- INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLASSMATES LITERACY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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