Oregon · Nonprofit
LITERACY INITIATIVES
LITERACY INITIATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,030 to it, the largest being MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($115,965). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Literacy Initiatives does
Mission
We affirm local initiatives in education turning language barriers into bridges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program Service #1 - Training in Multilingual Education. LI continues to provide personnel to the LEAD-India Community of Practice which hosts four meetings per year where doers and thinkers gather to find ways to improve educational access to children whose strongest language is under-represented in school.
$15,047 spent29% of program spendingProgram Service #2 - Literacy Research. LI continues to research the literacy and MLE needs of minority language communities in India connecting with field workers and making insights available to local change makers.
$24,399 spent48% of program spendingProgram Service #3 - Advocacy. We were able to attend the 2025 National Association of Bilingual Education NABE conference in Atlanta Georgia in order to explore professional overlaps between the Indian and US multilingual education landscape be it in teacher practice textbook publishing or institutional program support.
$11,744 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,190.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $76k to $103k (+35%).
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.
97% of LITERACY INITIATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Troy Bailey
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Andrew Dickson
President and Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INITIATIVES’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 INITIATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 INITIATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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 INITIATIVES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 INITIATIVES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LITERACY INITIATIVES
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
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 INITIATIVES: 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 INITIATIVES?
- LITERACY INITIATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,030 to it, the largest being MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($115,965). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY INITIATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $116,030 in grants to LITERACY INITIATIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY INITIATIVES?
- MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY INITIATIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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