New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC
LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,273,296 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,150,753). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Literacy Design Collaborative Inc does
Mission
Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. Ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms educator practice through the use of online tools and resources that facilitate collaboration, content development, and professional learning to effectively implement college and career readiness standards ("ccrs") in k-12 classrooms. Ldc works with a variety of stakeholders, including states, districts, teacher training organizations, schools, and individual teachers, to enable all educators to model, lead, and succeed in implementing the high expectations embodied by the ccrs as they accelerate their own professional growth and increase student outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide online technology and resources to support teachers and teacher trainers learning how to implement common core or other college ready standards. Ldc provides a curriculum design studio and professional learning environment to improve teacher skill in delivering common core-aligned instruction in classrooms across the country. Two technology sites support this work: ldc.org and coretools.ldc.org. Both were launched in mid-january 2014. The ldc.org website offers teachers, coaches, and leaders an instructional design system for developing students' literacy skills to prepare them for the demands of college and career. Ldc.org describes the ldc framework that enables teachers to operationalize the instructional shifts required by the new common core or other college ready standards. The site explains and catalogues a host of free resources for teachers, coaches, and administrators to use to build teacher skills. Ldc.org empowers teachers to build students' literacy skills and understanding of science, history, literature, and other important academic content through meaningful reading and writing assignments that are aligned to college and career readiness standards ("ccrs").…
$2,396,842 spent$381,749 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,396,842.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $6.4M to $4.8M (−24%).
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: 2017 45% · 2018 73% · 2019 69% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 81% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Chad Vignola
President / executive director
Board chair
John Katzman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $4.1M → $63k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DESIGN COLLABORATIVE 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 DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.7M on record.
- Department of Education$13.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 DESIGN COLLABORATIVE 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 DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC?
- LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,273,296 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,150,753). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $5,273,296 in grants to LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,150,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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