Alaska · Nonprofit
LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA
LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,771 to it, the largest being United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc ($184,915). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $897k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $265k
What Literacy Council of Alaska does
Mission
Our mission is to promote literacy for people of all ages in fairbanks and the interior of alaska. Significant activities include adult and school-age literacy as well as book recycling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult education programprovided classroom instruction and tutoring for adults in ell and ged preparation. Provide education, credentialing, and pre-employment training for individuals age 16-24.ell students - 79; abe/ged students - 95; wioa participants - 37ged graduates - 21volunteer instructors and tutors - 32
$502,488 spentof which $15,880 as grants$14,477 earned by the program70% of program spendingBook recycling programfree books donated and given away - 18,762 books donated and sold - 46,951 volunteers - 37workplace literacy students - 15
$217,487 spent$194,991 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $719,975.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $450k to $379k (−16%).
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 66% · 2021 63% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% · 2024 67% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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
Lucie Magrath
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $50k → $48k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COUNCIL OF ALASKA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 COUNCIL OF ALASKA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 69% · 2019 42% · 2020 87% · 2021 64% · 2022 49% · 2023 60% — 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
60% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
99% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 COUNCIL OF ALASKA receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA: 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 COUNCIL OF ALASKA?
- LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,771 to it, the largest being United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc ($184,915). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $373,771 in grants to LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA?
- United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc is the largest funder on record, with $184,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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