North Carolina · Nonprofit
GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC
GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,710 to it, the largest being THE CARRIE E AND LENA V GLENN FOUND ($76,416). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Gaston Literacy Council Inc does
Mission
Increase literacy in gaston county by providing basic skills assessments, instruction and materials to students, and tutor training and materials to volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide training to volunteers and coordinate volunteers with clients. Provide literacy materials to the clients and volunteers.
$121,048 spent$1,687 earned by the program35% of program spendingProvide student services, including assessments, counseling, and teaching literacy classes.
$169,466 spent$2,362 earned by the program49% of program spendingVolunteer and student recognition programs, awareness programs, and newsletters. Objective: increase recruitment and retention of volunteers and clients.
$55,336 spent$771 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $345,850.
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 $188k to $108k (−43%).
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 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Pauline Styers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $53k → $27k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Gaston County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL 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
GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 81% · 2019 43% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 96% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
84% of GASTON 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. $150 arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 GASTON 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL 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 GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,710 to it, the largest being THE CARRIE E AND LENA V GLENN FOUND ($76,416). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $203,710 in grants to GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- THE CARRIE E AND LENA V GLENN FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GASTON 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 13 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