New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC
LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,722 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Literacy Is a Family Experience Inc does
Mission
Literacy is a family experience partners with families, parents, and educators to encourage and promote the active participation in a child's educational experience with the goal of creating healthy learning environments to improving literacy in homes, school and within the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program service accomplishment 1primary model programlearning resource center (lrc)grade 1-4 teachers provide the remedial intervention. Students receive the remedial intervention 1 hour from 2-5 days. Students and parents participate in the 1 2 3 books in the home reading at home program. Parents are expected to read at home or supervise their children reading at home. Grades 1-6 participate in the literature circle program - it is a "read to learn" program that fosters and improve, writing spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension skillspartners in action for literacy (pal) parents attend workshops to learn how to participate in their child's educational experience, read at home, address attendance, assist with homework assignment. Parents are assisted with workbooks for their children to do practice work at homeit is never too late parents are expected to ensure that their children attend school on a regular basis.family navigator (fn) a liaison is provided to parents to help improve engagementcreating a healthy environment for learninglibrary books and remedial reading books provided to help remove the barriers that hinder parental engagement. Also, to create a print rich…
$2,584 spent16% of program spendingProgram service accomplishment 2early childhood program kindergarten teachers are the lrc teachers providing the instructions in phonemic awareness. This is provided during guided learning and story time. This program develops all skills needed for the early reader. Parents and students participate in 1 2 3 books in the home lending librarypartners in action for literacy (pal)parents attend workshops to learn how to participate in their child's educational experience, read at home, address attendance, assist with homework assignment, and learn the benefits of playing with their childrenit is never too late parents are expected to ensure that their children attend school on a regular basis. Program help parents to focus on the importance of attendance before grade 4creating a healthy environment for learninglibrary books and remedial reading books provided to help remove the barriers that hinder parental engagement. Also, to create a print rich environment in the classroom and space to house the lrc and create a library.
$9,406 spent58% of program spendingProgram service accomplishment 3weekly tutoring program & sing, talk, and read modelweekly tutoring program to engage parents early in their child's educational experience. The program focus on pre-k through grade 2-3 -focus on 1 2 3 books in the home program. Working with parents to read at home. Impact - over 500 families are engaged in the programmatic element of the model.sing, talk, and read model introduces to parents the need to engage with their children from infancy to age 3
$4,228 spent26% of program spendingTeacher incentives - workshops
$109 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,327.
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 2019 to 2020, from $24k to $33k (+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 IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patricia I Rowe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $12k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE 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 IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
72% 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 IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 88% · 2022 99% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE 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 $14k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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 IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC has grown faster than half of the 3,247 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,247 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE 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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC?
- LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,722 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $49,722 in grants to LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE 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 4 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