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LITERACY OF LOVE INC

LITERACY OF LOVE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,852 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$207k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$110k
Net assets
$356k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Literacy of Love Inc does

Mission

To educate impovrished children, provide home, medical care, food, clothing, support economic opportunities that fosters the children to grow into responsible, prinicipled, faithful adults

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education-main program for recipients

    $58,848 spent
    48% of program spending
  2. Food-medical care and supplies for program recipients

    $24,316 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Clothing-transportaion for program recipients

    $4,534 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $35,804 spent
    29% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,502.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2022 Revenue 242 ($268k) Expenses 190 ($116k) Net assets 510 ($195k)2023 Revenue 125 ($138k) Expenses 166 ($102k) Net assets 586 ($223k)2024 Revenue 116 ($129k) Expenses 144 ($88k) Net assets 720 ($274k)2025 Revenue 187 ($207k) Expenses 205 ($126k) Net assets 933 ($356k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (187)Expenses (205)Net assets (933)

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 $44k to $208k (+374%).

$44k
$208k
$263k
$311k
$356k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$49k
’21
$151k
’22
$36k
’23
$40k
’24
$81k
’25
1.0
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.

Chief executive

Cari Matejka

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5555
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $43.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 OF LOVE 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 OF LOVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 OF LOVE INC.

46%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 51% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of LITERACY OF LOVE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 FY2022, 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

79% of LITERACY OF LOVE 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 $24k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.

NY
TX
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LITERACY OF LOVE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITERACY OF LOVE INC?
LITERACY OF LOVE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,852 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LITERACY OF LOVE INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $109,852 in grants to LITERACY OF LOVE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY OF LOVE INC?
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 OF LOVE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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