New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC
LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,218 to it, the largest being David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc ($275,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $799k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Literacy Assistance Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the literacy assistance center (lac) is to strengthen and expand the adult education system, and to advance adult literacy as a core value in our society and a foundation for equal opportunity and social justice. Since 1983, the lac has been working to build the capacity and improve the quality of the adult basic education (abe), english for speakers of other languages (esol), and high school equivalency (hse) programs that serve new york's most educationally and economically marginalized adults and out-of-school youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Literacy data services in fy 2025, the lac completed the last six months of the second year and the first six months of the third year of its cy2023-2027 contract to manage and maintain the new york state education department's (nysed's) adult student information system and technical support (asists), the online system which collects and analyzes data on approximately 80,000 adult literacy students in new york state each year. Asists is the backbone of the accountability system employed by the nysed to evaluate and fund over 130 adult literacy providers throughout the state. In addition, as part of the lac's contract through the new york city council adult literacy pilot project, the lac built a new, online data collection system for all participating city council pilot-funded adult literacy programs.
$910,744 spent43% of program spendingResource center in fy 2025, the lac completed the fourth year of serving as the coordinator, data analyst, and technical assistance provider for the new york city council's adult literacy pilot project, which funds 42 community-based adult literacy programs in nyc. The lac served as a liaison between the programs, the city council, and the department of youth and community development; collected and analyzed data and reported on impacts and outcomes; provided professional development and technical assistance to instructors in participating porgrams; and completed a 10-month professional development institute for emerging adult literacy program leaders in nyc. In fy 2025, the lac also completed the fifth year of a five-year contract to serve as the new york state education department adult education program and policy team's support and technical assistance center (stac) for new york city. Under the stac, the lac provided one-on-one support and technical assistance to 21 nysed-funded adult literacy education (ale) programs throughout nyc.
$547,701 spent26% of program spendingEducational enterprises in fy 2025, the lac completed the second year of its three to six year contract to provide professional development and technical assistance services to over 90 community-based adult and adolescent literacy programs and over 30 out-of-school and in-school youth workforce development programs funded through the new york city department of youth and community development (dycd). The lac also continued to offer training and technical assistance services on a fee-for-services basis to adult literacy, high school equivalency, and adult english language programs throughout the united states.
$531,646 spent$91,618 earned by the program25% of program spendingPublic affairs
$114,311 spentof which $13,817 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,104,402.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $1.6M (−15%).
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: 2017 90% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 90% · 2024 86% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $46k → $118k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC’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
LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 75% · 2019 73% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 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
67% of LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC
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 New York
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC?
- LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,218 to it, the largest being David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc ($275,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $799,218 in grants to LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC?
- David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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