Indiana · Nonprofit
GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC
GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,716,198 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,022,108). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Greater Indianapolis Literacy League Inc does
Mission
Indy reads' mission is to build the literacy, english language, and job readiness skills to empower adults and their families to reach their full potential. The vision is simple: 100% literacy for all
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Indy reads' program includes literacy and english language learner, high school equivalency, job certification, family literacy, workforce literacy, and literacy in action programs for adult learners throughout central indiana area. The instructor-led and volunteer-supported classes provide resources and tools needed for learners to increase literacy and english language proficiency as well as complete high school equivalency testing. Our workforce literacy program provides adult learners with the opportunity to prepare for and earn industry-recognized credentials through instruction and guidance from indy reads' staff.
$1,043,317 spent$96,570 earned by the program88% of program spendingIndy reads' bookstore sells new and used books in addition to promoting literacy through more than 250 free literacy, arts and cultural events, including children's reading time.
$141,275 spent$130,746 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,184,592.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+28%).
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: 2020 31% · 2021 52% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% · 2024 20% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Ruba Marshood
CEO
Board chair
Adarsh Mantravadi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $220k → $525k.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE 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
72% 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 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 54% · 2019 51% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — 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
52% of GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
78% of GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC?
- GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,716,198 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,022,108). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,716,198 in grants to GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC?
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,022,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 38 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