Tennessee · Nonprofit
Literacy Council of Kingsport
Literacy Council of Kingsport (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,849 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ($296,629). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Literacy Council of Kingsport does
Mission
Provide free one-on-one tutoring for adults and qualified children to improve their reading and writing skills
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adult literacy tutoring adults in reading and writing skills,. Tutors are volunteers and all material is generally provided to the student for free. Our goal is to get the student to a 5th grade level.
$35,554 spent44% of program spendingAdult English as a second language tutoring non-English speakers to read and write and speak English. The Tutors are volunteers and all material is generally provided to the student. Our goal is to improve their English.
$31,604 spent40% of program spendingChildren Tutoring tutoring children through local schools and youth service organizations. Our goal is to help children read at grade level. The tutors are volunteers and all materials are generally provided for free.
$12,839 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,997.
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 2021 to 2022, from $100k to $173k (+74%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Emily Griffey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $39k → $54k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Kingsport’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 Council of Kingsport leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Kingsport.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 75% · 2021 76% · 2022 75% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Literacy Council of Kingsport's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Literacy Council of Kingsport
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 Council of Kingsport: 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 Kingsport?
- Literacy Council of Kingsport (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,849 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ($296,629). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Literacy Council of Kingsport have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $404,849 in grants to Literacy Council of Kingsport, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Literacy Council of Kingsport?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC is the largest funder on record, with $296,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Literacy Council of Kingsport find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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