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LITERACY CNY INC

LITERACY CNY INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,237 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$67k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$397k
Net assets
$-116362
11/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Literacy Cny Inc does

Mission

Literacy cny is an organization that trains volunteers to improve the reading, english language, math, and digital literacy skills of adults. Our trained volunteers support participants in achieving their personal goals to fully participate in the community as citizens, parents, consumers, and workers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide english language, math, and reading tutoring to members of the onondaga county community. During fiscal year 2021-2022, launched a digital literacy program to teach basic computer skills and help community members complete computer based tasks.

    $109,290 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,290.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($343k) Expenses 100 ($346k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2019 Revenue 91 ($313k) Expenses 101 ($351k) Net assets 48 ($35k)2020 Revenue 97 ($332k) Expenses 91 ($315k) Net assets 70 ($51k)2022 Revenue 46 ($157k) Expenses 39 ($134k) Net assets 44 ($32k)2023 Revenue 43 ($147k) Expenses 57 ($196k) Net assets -24 ($-17264)2024 Revenue 34 ($117k) Expenses 43 ($150k) Net assets -70 ($-50953)2025 Revenue 20 ($67k) Expenses 38 ($133k) Net assets -160 ($-116362)
2018201920202022202320242025
Revenue (20)Expenses (38)Net assets (-160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $55k to $31k (−44%).

$118k
$102k
$105k
$55k
$31k
$52k
$42k
2018201920202022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2022 6% · 2023 65% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LITERACY CNY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’18
−$38k
’19
$17k
’20
$23k
’22
−$49k
’23
−$34k
’24
−$65k
’25
2.3
months of
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

Joshua Stapf

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018201920202022202320242025
Listed131818891210
Joined·+9+2·+1+4+1
No longer listed·42·013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $84k → $524.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CNY 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 CNY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 CNY INC.

40%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 50% · 2021 74% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of LITERACY CNY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of LITERACY CNY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
PA
VA
DE
TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LITERACY CNY INC's revenue fell 80% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−97% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITERACY CNY INC?
LITERACY CNY INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,237 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITERACY CNY INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $397,237 in grants to LITERACY CNY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY CNY INC?
CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY CNY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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