Skip to content
Ask
← Funding

California · Nonprofit

INDIA LITERACY PROJECT

INDIA LITERACY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,611,370 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,679,414). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$3.4M
28/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What India Literacy Project does

Mission

To empower every individual we serve with functional literacy and an understanding of their basic rights and responsibilities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. ILP INDIA-Realizing that for improved effectiveness and efficiency, ILP would need to have its own presence in India, ILP decided to set up the ILP India Trust. The ILP India Trust was registered in India in January 2000, to facilitate identification of projects, develop intervention strategies. ILP India has developed a comprehensive on-site participatory evaluation and monitoring process which has helped strengthen, sustain and improved the success rates of programs funds.

    $139,000 spent
    13% of program spending

  2. Youth Club Bejjipuram FCRA

    $58,987 spent
    6% of program spending

  3. Praja Pragathi Trust Tirupathi-Enabling access to education among Yenadi Tribes in Chitoor district of Andhra

    $54,073 spent
    5% of program spending

  4. Technology Resource Communication

    $52,353 spent
    5% of program spending

  5. Community Development Foundation

    $50,715 spent
    5% of program spending

  6. Ganeshwar Club- Elementary EducationAccess to elementary education as every childb

    $49,345 spent
    5% of program spending

  7. Rural Development Society

    $46,083 spent
    4% of program spending

  8. SNEHA - Strengthening govt. schools through community ownership and participation in Jagalur district of Karnataka.

    $44,927 spent
    4% of program spending

  9. UNIFIED ACTION COUNCIL-Setting up education centers; bringing children back to schools in a tribal region in Kendujahar district in Orissa.

    $44,341 spent
    4% of program spending

  10. A L Rangarajan

    $35,557 spent
    3% of program spending

  11. Association For Rural Community Development-Quality learning for children of linguistic minorities in Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu

    $34,701 spent
    3% of program spending

  12. Lohardagagram Swarajya Sansthan-Community empowerment for quality education in Lohardarga district of Jharkhand.

    $33,550 spent
    3% of program spending

  13. LIFE EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT TRUST-Strengthen Jharkhand RTE Forum for realization of free and compulsory education in Ranchi.

    $32,160 spent
    3% of program spending

  14. Village reconstruction and Development-Ensure quality education for tribal children in pre-schools and primary schools in Thiruvannamali district in Tamil Nadu.

    $31,822 spent
    3% of program spending

  15. Rural Reconstruction Organisation

    $30,820 spent
    3% of program spending

  16. Centre for Rural Education

    $30,238 spent
    3% of program spending

  17. Victor Tauro

    $29,483 spent
    3% of program spending

  18. Ravi Mani

    $29,248 spent
    3% of program spending

  19. IRCDS - Educating children of brick kiln workersThis project aims to provide education to children of brick kiln workers in 40 brick kilns of Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu.

    $26,496 spent
    3% of program spending

  20. Ujwala - Community for children's education

    $26,287 spent
    2% of program spending

  21. Sankalp Samaj Sevi Sanstha

    $25,320 spent
    2% of program spending

  22. CHILD RIGHTS TRUST-Ensuring RTE for children in Gadag and Chikaballapur districts of Karnataka.

    $24,565 spent
    2% of program spending

  23. Joint Action Network- Enrolling and retaining children in schools through community support in Hilsa block of Nalanda district in Bihar.

    $24,447 spent
    2% of program spending

  24. Dream decentralise Rural education

    $24,430 spent
    2% of program spending

  25. Rural Organization for Social Advancement

    $24,155 spent
    2% of program spending

  26. Manava Seva Kendra

    $22,761 spent
    2% of program spending

  27. Manav Sansadhan Evam Mahila Vikas Sansthan

    $20,672 spent
    2% of program spending

  28. N. Bhanu Sameer

    $4,092 spent
    0% of program spending

  29. Project Funding-Other

    $1,320 spent
    0% of program spending

  30. Abhiyan- Bring children back to schoolBringing out-of-school children back to school in Jehanabad in Bihar.

  31. CDF: Integrated education movement acorss Sedum block in Gulbarga district in Karnataka.

  32. Chetna Vikas-Educating childrenCatalyzing Change through Childrenb

  33. Chiguru Balavikasa Samsthe-Scholarship and mentoring for students in Magadi district of Karnataka

  34. Sugam Jagruti-Quality education for children in backward areas of Nalanda district in Bihar.

  35. Mahila Samiti-Enrollment of children in schoolsEnrollment and improvement of learning levels in children in Chattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh.

  36. PRAGATI - Education and women's empowerment in Sundergardh district of Orissa.

  37. Rachna-Education for all childrenSocial inclusion for education for all children in Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh.

  38. TRCSC-Bring children back to school, improve the quality of learning in Sarakeila Kharaswan district of Jharkhand.

  39. Jharkhand Vikas Parishad-Bringing back school dropouts and school strengthening with community participation in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand

  40. Centre for Integrated Development-Quality of Education for tribal children in Gwalior district in Madhya Pradesh.

  41. Nava Jeevan Trust- Learning Levels improvement for rural children in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu.

  42. Savera Foundation Giridhi-School strengthening and rehabilitation of children from mining areas through community participation in Giridh district of Jharkhand,

  43. Vikalp Foundation-Community based intervention for quality education in Gaya district in Bihar.

  44. AARDIP-Community Empowerment for Quality Education

  45. Chhandem School

  46. Indian Society for Rural Development

  47. Rachna Sansthan

  48. Patna Jesuit Society

  49. Sodhana Charitable Trust

  50. Gandhigram Trust

  51. Adoni Area Rural Development

  52. Hope foundation

  53. Holistic Approach

  54. Harish Krishnappa

  55. Suchitra Rao

  56. Project Funding and Monitoring

The 56 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,051,948.

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 ($906k) Expenses 100 ($702k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 110 ($995k) Expenses 104 ($729k) Net assets 115 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 110 ($992k) Expenses 113 ($792k) Net assets 126 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 128 ($1.2M) Expenses 108 ($756k) Net assets 150 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 135 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($893k) Net assets 168 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 138 ($1.3M) Expenses 143 ($1.0M) Net assets 182 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 150 ($1.1M) Net assets 191 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 153 ($1.1M) Net assets 193 ($3.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (122)Expenses (153)Net assets (193)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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $2.6M (+17%).

$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.4M
$3.4M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of INDIA LITERACY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,680 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$204k
’17
$266k
’18
$200k
’19
$407k
’20
$326k
’21
$251k
’22
$153k
’23
$36k
’24
38
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed56677777
Joined·+3+0+1+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·2000101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $238k → $703k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Bright Funds Foundationunclassified
$87k
Skoll Fundunclassified
$10k
funders
14
15
10
13
13
15
17
16
8
1

17 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 INDIA LITERACY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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

INDIA LITERACY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

92% 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 INDIA LITERACY PROJECT.

36%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 49% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% — 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

39% of INDIA LITERACY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of INDIA LITERACY PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $458k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from California funders.

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
DE
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INDIA LITERACY PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · above the median
Months of reserve37.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like INDIA LITERACY PROJECT

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 California

Institute for Local Government76%Immigrant Legal Resource Center75%International Funders for Indigenous Peoples74%Educate2Envision International Inc74%Reading Partners74%Foundation for Learning Equality Inc74%Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)74%India Friends Association74%

Nationally

International Assoc of Law Enforcement Intel Analysts78%The News Literacy Project Inc77%Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession77%International Book Project Inc77%Literacy Chippewa Valley76%International Leadership Association Inc76%International Literacy Association76%Literacy Outreach76%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

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 INDIA LITERACY PROJECT: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds INDIA LITERACY PROJECT?
INDIA LITERACY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,611,370 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,679,414). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INDIA LITERACY PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,611,370 in grants to INDIA LITERACY PROJECT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIA LITERACY PROJECT?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,679,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIA LITERACY PROJECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds India Literacy Project →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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