North Carolina · Nonprofit
Literacy Together
Literacy Together (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,292 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($301,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $829k
What Literacy Together does
Mission
Literacy Together transforms lives and communities through the power of literacy. Trained volunteers provide free tutoring to support youth and adults and help them achieve their educational goals, from basic literacy and English language skills to high school equivalency and U.S. citizenship preparation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Literacy The Youth Literacy Program improves the academic achievement of youth (K-12) who read below grade level by utilizing volunteer tutors and paid young interns to provide free, one-on-one instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and math. Youth participating in the internship are also provided with various professional development workshops throughout the year, including sessions on financial literacy, career readiness, and leadership development. Last year: - 185 students received free tutoring support - 14 trained volunteer tutors provided a combined 569 hours of tutoring instruction - 78 paid youth interns provided a combined 3,780 hours of tutoring instruction
$237,712 spent50% of program spendingEnglish for Speakers of Other Languages The English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program provides free English language instruction to students who wish to remove barriers to employment and improve the economic mobility of their families, help their children in school, become U.S. citizens, and learn to navigate the healthcare system. Last year: - 255 students received intensive English language instruction - 219 trained volunteer tutors provided a combined 17,254 hours of tutoring instruction - 4 students passed the U.S. Citizenship exam and became U.S. citizens.
$188,373 spent39% of program spendingAdult Literacy The Adult Literacy program provides free one-one-instruction to English speakers whose reading, writing, spelling, or math skills are below a basic skills level. Students enroll because they want to improve job prospects, help their children in school, enroll in a High School Equivalency Program, and better navigate the world around them. Last year: - 50 students received individualized tutoring support - 40 trained volunteer tutors provided a combined 2,406 hours of tutoring instruction . Literacy Together facilitates enrollment in Dolly Partons Imagination Library, connecting children under age five with free monthly books to foster early literacy and a love of reading. - 6,859 children under the age of five received free books.
$53,745 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $479,830.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $380k to $851k (+124%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 29% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 17% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Amanda Wrublewski
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $37k → $194k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Together’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 Together has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 Together.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 46% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 47% · 2023 53% — 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
50% of Literacy Together's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
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 FY2023, 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
76% of Literacy Together's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k 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.
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 Together: 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 Together?
- Literacy Together (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,292 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($301,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Literacy Together have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,082,292 in grants to Literacy Together, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Literacy Together?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $301,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Literacy Together find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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