Michigan · Nonprofit
LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED
LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,033 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Legacy of Literacy Incorporated does
Mission
To promote literacy for Detroit area youth through reading.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Distributed 1,139 books to over 500 children at schools churches and community events across the Metro Detroit area.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOn a monthly basis restocked 4 Little Free Libraries with 1,256 books for children and adults in neighborhoods in Detroit and Highland Park Michigan. We also received 32 boxes of books from Dr. Linda Pavonetti to assist with this endeavor.
$0 spent0% of program spendingIn collaboration with the Reggie McKenzie Foundation we hosted Real Kids Read at 2 Highland Park schools 1 school in River Rouge MI and 2 nursing homes. Refreshments and a book of their choosing was given to 68 students. The students were bused to the schools and nursing homes.
$0 spent0% of program spending41 students from the Hope Academy and Vanderberg School were transported to the Source Booksellers Bookstore in Detroit to purchase books with donations from Legacy of Literacy during the Christmas holiday.
$705 spent7% of program spendingTo expand access to books for children and families the organization purchased 687 new books and secured an additional 400 books through the First Book Distribution Center. These resources were placed directly in the hands of young readers through partnerships with Real Kids Read and My Sisters Keeper reaching four schools in Highland Park and River Rough Michigan. Legacy of Literacy also covered transportation and meal support ensuring that literacy events were welcoming accessible and family-centered.
$3,939 spentof which $2,000 as grants38% of program spendingIn 2025 Legacy of Literacy Incorporated distributed 1,097 books to children and families through school-based and community partnerships directly supporting early literacy and access to age-appropriate reading materials. Programming reached numerous community events across Metro Detroit.
$5,848 spent56% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,492.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $11k (+331%).
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 LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $16.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED’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
LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED?
- LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,033 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,033 in grants to LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY OF LITERACY INCORPORATED 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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