Texas · Nonprofit
LITERACY CONNEXUS INC
LITERACY CONNEXUS INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,777 to it, the largest being Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation ($160,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Literacy Connexus Inc does
Mission
Schedule o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teaching english connexus updated much of its training material in 2025, which culminated in publishing an esl training manual, with digital copies to hundreds of volunteers and over 70 paperback copies sold. Expert esl trainers led 11 in-person training events with 244 volunter teachers participating. Our online training course had 214 volunteer participants with over 1000 interactions, and our volunteer esl teachers viewed 468 hours of youtube training videos.
$39,550 spent$8,312 earned by the program41% of program spendingReady for school is a family literacy program serving refugee families in fort worth, equipping preschoolers and their parents for success in u.s. Classrooms. In 2025, the program served 20 families at monarch pass apartments using a 24-week curriculum based on classic childrens books to build early literacy, motor, and social skills. Parents and children participate together, with families receiving books and at home activities to encourage reading at home. This year we had four volunteers and one director for the program. Ready for school also partnered with fort worth schools with the director of the 0-5 program. She came 6 times over the school year with materials and a book mobile for the families to receive extra books as they build their home libraries. The curriculum is freely available online to support replication by churches and volunteers. Volunteers assist families as they learn about the american education system and even took a field trip to visit the local elementary school, helping to overcome gaps and fears in getting young refugee children registered for school.
$978 spent$50 earned by the program1% of program spendingLearn for life is a partnership between literacy connexus and the tarrant literacy coalition that provides one-on-one adult literacy tutoring at goodwill centers, ymcas, online, and in libraries in tarrant county. In 2025, the program continued under the leadership of certified teachers who trained and mentored tutors, our trained volunteers delivered 366 hours of instruction to 15 adults from diverse backgrounds working toward goals such as earning a ged, improving reading skills, or navigating daily literacy tasks. The program offers personalized support to both native and non-native english speakers and connects learners with additional educational resources through local partnerships, including partnerships with tarrant county adult education and literacy consortium, goodwill, literacy texas, and other community partners. Because most of this program is volunteer-led, we are able to provide these services at a very low cost.
$80 spent$100 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther programs that support the mission and further of the organization.
$54,747 spent$16,900 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,355.
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.
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 $15k to $69k (+348%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Lester Meriwether
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $5k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CONNEXUS 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 CONNEXUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 44% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 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
92% of LITERACY CONNEXUS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Organizations like LITERACY CONNEXUS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY CONNEXUS INC: 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 LITERACY CONNEXUS INC?
- LITERACY CONNEXUS INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,777 to it, the largest being Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation ($160,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY CONNEXUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $233,777 in grants to LITERACY CONNEXUS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY CONNEXUS INC?
- Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY CONNEXUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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