Alabama · Nonprofit
LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,574,171 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($1,572,820). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $631k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $309k
What Literacy Council of Central Alabama does
Mission
To improve the lives of adults and their families through literacy education that teaches people to read, write, and speak english.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operate a clearing house for literacy information. Expand programs. Recruit learners and volunteers. Communicate information about literacy programs to area organizations. Identify gaps in literacy. Develop funding. The organization provides literacy services.
$649,478 spent$1,367 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $649,478.
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 2022 to 2023, from $876k to $437k (−50%).
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: 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
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
Dr Bryan Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Brian Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $344k → $393k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 55% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
87% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $892k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA?
- LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,574,171 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($1,572,820). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,574,171 in grants to LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,572,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 39 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