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LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC
LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ANNE E FOWLER INSTITUTE INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inclocal
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION 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 HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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
50% of LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education InclocalCT · funds 67 organizations near you
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Rotary Trust FundlocalCT · funds 69 organizations near you
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Home Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ibis Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION 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 HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC?
- LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ANNE E FOWLER INSTITUTE INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC?
- ANNE E FOWLER INSTITUTE 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 HOW INC FKA GILLIS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing