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LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC

LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $333,332 to it, the largest being The McMurry Foundation ($333,332). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$0
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What Literacy Leadership Inc does

Mission

Provide reading material curriculum guides reading events and community wide events to improve literacy

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. None

    $0 spent
  2. None

    $0 spent
  3. None

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($320k) Expenses 100 ($339k) Net assets 100 ($226k)2019 Revenue 120 ($383k) Expenses 126 ($427k) Net assets 81 ($183k)2020 Revenue 55 ($176k) Expenses 61 ($206k) Net assets 68 ($153k)2021 Revenue 57 ($182k) Expenses 63 ($212k) Net assets 54 ($123k)2022 Revenue 1 ($5k) Expenses 36 ($121k) Net assets 3 ($7k)2023 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($29) Net assets 3 ($6k)
201820192020202120222023
Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $123k to $7k (−95%).

$226k
$183k
$153k
$123k
$7k
$6k
201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’18
−$43k
’19
−$29k
’20
−$31k
’21
−$116k
’22
−$29
’23
0.6
months of
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.

20182019202020212022
Listed44444
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $167k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LITERACY LEADERSHIP 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.

Where its funders are

LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.

DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC's revenue fell 100% between 2018 and 2023.

Revenue growth (annualized)−65% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC?
LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $333,332 to it, the largest being The McMurry Foundation ($333,332). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $333,332 in grants to LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC?
The McMurry Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $333,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 1 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