New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS
LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,614 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Literacy for Incarcerated Teens does
Mission
To collaborate with teachers librarians volunteers and staff serving New Yorks and other states incarcerated and detained youth along with host agencies to enhance students reading skills and interest. Our goal is to inspire all students to embrace a literate lifestyle. We achieve this by creating outstanding school libraries delivering top-notch library programs organizing special events and providing professional development chances.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Collection Development Grants were awarded to 34 juvenile detention centers in New York City and State to acquire 842 books and 126 magazine and newspaper subscriptions benefiting approximately 1612 students.
$18,274 spent74% of program spendingLibrary and Literacy Program Grants were given to 5 juvenile detention centers in New York and Kentucky to provide 54 in person and zoom author visits writing poetry and performing workshops serving approximately 1438 students.
$6,458 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $65k to $40k (−38%).
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.
100% of LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Karlan Sick
Chairperson President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $23k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS’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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 79% · 2021 43% · 2022 84% · 2023 44% — 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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
62% of LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $73k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k 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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS's revenue fell 42% between 2022 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 48 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS
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.
Public support
55%
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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS: 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 FOR INCARCERATED TEENS?
- LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,614 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $190,614 in grants to LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing