Michigan · Nonprofit
KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL
KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,084,336 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($2,291,699). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Kalamazoo Literacy Council does
Mission
The Kalamazoo Literacy Council (klc) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to enhancing the lives of adults by improving their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension skills. The klc was founded in 1974 and is the only organization in kalamazoo county with the exclusive purpose of providing free basic literacy instruction to adults. For more than 50 years the organization has been the leading voice for the cause of adult literacy, mobilizing and training volunteer tutors to teach struggling adult readers throughout the county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Adult tutoring program: the klc offers free literacy tutoring and free educational materials to adults who have been evaluated by the klc. The organization administers assessments to determine the reading level of students. The klc then matches a trained tutor with an adult student to engage in weekly two-hour tutoring sessions. The klc also administers pre- and post-tests to measure progress toward workforce, educational and personal goals. The klc provides tutor training for qualified volunteers in the laubach method. Presently, the klc recruits, trains and equips volunteers to tutor adults and has approximately 173 active tutors assisting 453 adults in need of literacy education in the community with 111 of the tutors and students being paired. The tutors commit to 14-hours of training and a minimum of a year of service. The council provided free educational materials and services to 173 tutors and 453 learners; and has established 15 literacy centers in area non-profits to serve additional students along with a virtual learning center. Esl of southwest michigan: this program provides four levels of esl instruction, including language, speaking, listening, and basic literacy.…
$809,720 spent$140,964 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $809,720.
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 $372k to $704k (+89%).
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: 2023 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $86k → $633k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL’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
KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 88% · 2019 46% · 2020 72% · 2021 43% · 2022 63% · 2023 55% — 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
93% of KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
96% of KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $992k 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.
Against its field
KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL: 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 KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL?
- KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,084,336 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($2,291,699). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,084,336 in grants to KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL?
- THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,291,699 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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