Skip to content

Florida · Nonprofit

LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC

LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,291 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($397,621). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$524k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$131k
11/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Literacy Council of Sarasota Inc does

Mission

Teaching through one-on-one and small group tutoring that enables adults to acquire reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension skills to meet the demands of daily life, to improve their potential for fulfilling employment, and to enhance the quality of life for themselves and their families.recruiting, training, and supporting tutors and other volunteers who perform the important lcs activities that result in a more literate sarasota community.raising community awareness so that cooperative efforts lead to increasing literacy and supporting the goals of the organization.collaborating with other local, state, and national organizations to educate decision-makers, co-sponsor activities, and jointly work on projects relating to adult and family literacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Improved reading skills for hundreds of people.

    $459,027 spent$36,026 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $459,027.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 116 ($238k) Expenses 103 ($234k) Net assets 105 ($65k)2019 Revenue 121 ($248k) Expenses 103 ($234k) Net assets 128 ($79k)2020 Revenue 137 ($280k) Expenses 123 ($280k) Net assets 129 ($80k)2021 Revenue 139 ($284k) Expenses 127 ($288k) Net assets 123 ($76k)2022 Revenue 179 ($367k) Expenses 144 ($327k) Net assets 187 ($116k)2023 Revenue 193 ($394k) Expenses 168 ($382k) Net assets 207 ($128k)2024 Revenue 212 ($433k) Expenses 187 ($424k) Net assets 221 ($137k)2025 Revenue 257 ($524k) Expenses 233 ($530k) Net assets 212 ($131k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (257)Expenses (233)Net assets (212)

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 $80k to $128k (+59%).

$66k
$68k
$83k
$106k
$80k
$128k
$133k
$164k
$183k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 8%. 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.

−$23k
’17
$3k
’18
$14k
’19
$590
’20
−$4k
’21
$40k
’22
$12k
’23
$9k
’24
−$5k
’25
0.7
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

Tom Melville

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed13121010910111112
Joined·+2+2+4+2+2+3+3+3
No longer listed·34431232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $126k.

3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SARASOTA 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 COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

54% 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 SARASOTA INC.

37%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 81% · 2019 37% · 2020 73% · 2021 51% · 2022 48% · 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

36% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

83% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MA
OH
NJ
TN
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

11
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

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC?
LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,291 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($397,621). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,074,291 in grants to LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $397,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Literacy Council of Sarasota →

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 17 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