Texas · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114,048 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($399,564). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What International Literacy and Development does
Mission
Ilad exists to provide the skills, training, concepts, and access to materials needed to affect ongoing change with and within vulnerable communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, International Literacy and Development conducted activities in 11 countries. Jordan, azerbaijan, oman, togo, guinea, china, india, georgia, the united states, egypt and honduras. Within many of these countries, there are multiple projects and programs promoting human flourishing through educational, economic, and social development.in the middle east, ilad staff is focused on literacy and life-skills education among an overlooked, underserved minority language group. Over 70 people have benefited from the work.micro enterprise: six women entrepreneurs were involved in creating and running a jewelry/handicrafts micro-enterprise that provides steady, supplemental income for their families and gives them a sense of self-worth and confidence.literacy: using the alphabet created and tested in 2021, there are currently women's literacy classes and study groups being held. These classes and groups are learning to read in both the local language and the language of wider use. Additionally, a community member has been trained to be a literacy facilitator in her own community.
$2,158,753 spentof which $160,719 as grants$3,300 earned by the program85% of program spendingIlad's longest running programs are in west africa, where ilad staff are involved in literacy, agricultural training, social business, micro-finance, and education. Ilad conducted the following activities:literacy: in 2025, ilad operated 23 mobile libraries, serving over 2,000 minority language speakers across two countries. 6 of the villages where libraries have been established have begun service clubs to help their community. There are also 12 schools with 20+ teachers who serve approximately 1,250 children and adults. In another west african country,150 women participated in literacy classes that took place in 6 different villages. 3 new assistant teachers were trained.agricultural training: over 1,500 local farmers have adopted the innovative organic pineapple production methods being taught on ilad's self-sustaining demonstration farm. Over 700 village-based, small-farm co-ops are trained and in operation. The agriculture project includes teaching pond culture tilapia raising, animal husbandry, and crop diversification. In 2025, a poultry operation was added that provides jobs and funding for more sustainable projects. Additionally, in 2025, ilad togo hosted a group of…
$178,000 spentof which $177,593 as grants7% of program spendingHuman language technology global: ilad continued advancing the field of human language technology through data collection, app development, and the creation of translation development tools, with the goal of providing access to information to low-resource language communities through machine translation. In 2025, ilad consistently worked on a variety of projects for multiple language communities throughout the world. Examples include:phoenix - a language agnostic infrastructure required for the development of ai solutions is being piloted among among a minority language community in north africagatehouse - a simple windows program for bulk document translationalfalfa - a simple app for rohingya adults learning english basicsgo high level - a customer relationship management platform for ilad's bdc'saster speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems for rohingyawoolaroofor rutul - a picture dictionary app for the rutul in central asialaurel -a prototype to demonstrate what an end user app could look like once the underlying technologies have been developed
$122,613 spent$49,430 earned by the program5% of program spendingDallas, texas, is home to a large refugee population, many of whom speak minority languages with no access to written or audio texts in their primary language. Ilad works with the rohingya refugee community in the areas of esl, literacy, citizenship, and health education. Ilad is also involved in preserving and promoting the rohingya language and is currently collecting language data to be used in the production of a rohingya dictionary and the development of apps for smartphones and computers.esl and citizenship: 40 rohingya refugee families participated in esl classes. Additionally, eligible rohingya were prepared for their citizenship test and interviews. 2 rohingya teachers taught their own community members.youth engagement: ilad staff conducted a youth civic engagement six-week program in fall with 15 rohingya teens who learned basic rohingya to help their parents with important documents, participated in a local service event. This program built the foundation for stable generational understanding and stronger families.literacy and education: ilad created a youtube channel that hosts videos covering a variety of important topics as well as english learning tools, all in the…
$93,693 spent$2,851 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,553,059.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.5M (+37%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Brenda R Holland
President/exec director
Board chair
William J Kotlan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 17 funders, grant income rose $2k → $343k.
13 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT’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
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
87% 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 INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 69% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
85% of INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT'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 $163k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $951k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT has grown faster than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Optimum Connexions LLC · disregarded
- Live Oak Staffing & Logistics LLC · disregarded
- Access Global Tech LLC · disregarded
- Ilad Togo · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT?
- INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114,048 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($399,564). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,114,048 in grants to INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $399,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 26 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