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FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC

FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,420 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ($197,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$221k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$484k
Net assets
$209k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Family Literacy Academy at Lake Wales Inc does

Mission

The family literacy academy at lake wales provides a fully integrated, comprehensive educational program concentrating on adults that seek to complete their ged/esol program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The academy has helped some 2,000 adults and children become better citizens prepared for life by offering instruction towards their ged or becoming proficient in english. Up to 149 of these adults have already passed the ged and a number of them have enrolled in college.

    $148,659 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $148,659.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2018 Revenue 108 ($173k) Expenses 87 ($170k) Net assets 102 ($118k)2019 Revenue 106 ($169k) Expenses 91 ($177k) Net assets 96 ($110k)2020 Revenue 107 ($171k) Expenses 80 ($157k) Net assets 108 ($125k)2021 Revenue 75 ($119k) Expenses 81 ($157k) Net assets 52 ($61k)2022 Revenue 112 ($178k) Expenses 84 ($164k) Net assets 65 ($75k)2023 Revenue 120 ($192k) Expenses 88 ($171k) Net assets 119 ($137k)2024 Revenue 136 ($217k) Expenses 97 ($189k) Net assets 145 ($168k)2025 Revenue 138 ($221k) Expenses 96 ($187k) Net assets 181 ($209k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (96)Net assets (181)Peer revenue range

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 $137k to $181k (+32%).

$116k
$118k
$122k
$137k
$181k
$215k
$234k
$265k
$290k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$35k
’17
$3k
’18
−$8k
’19
$15k
’20
−$38k
’21
$14k
’22
$21k
’23
$29k
’24
$33k
’25
19
months of
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.

20242025
Listed2020
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $71k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES 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

FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC.

41%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 71% · 2019 68% · 2020 64% · 2021 54% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% — 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.

Where its funders are

80% of FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MA
TN
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve18.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC?
FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,420 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ($197,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $484,420 in grants to FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC?
MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC find more funders?
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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 6 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