Mississippi · Nonprofit
LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL
LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,215 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY ($94,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $157k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Lafayette County Literacy Council does
Mission
Raising literacy levels locally
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Imagination library delivered books to children new kids enrolled with focus on low income children help parents promote reading at home
$33,363 spent49% of program spendingAdult literacy helps adults improve their reading skill to help get better jobs and improve their quality of life
$18,826 spent28% of program spendingChildrens book fest gives every first grader a quality age appropriate book that is incorporated into a week of fun and curriculum-connected to sc
$15,667 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,856.
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 2021 to 2022, from $79k to $102k (+29%).
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.
100% of LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sarah Mclellan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $10k.
1 of 6 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.
From the IRS filings of LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 47% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LAFAYETTE COUNTY 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LAFAYETTE COUNTY 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 LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL?
- LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,215 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY ($94,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $157,215 in grants to LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL?
- UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $94,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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