New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY TRUST INC
LITERACY TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,455,156 to it, the largest being BENEDICT SILVERMAN FOUNDATION ($5,880,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Venable Foundation Incshared funders
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio match
- Cambiar Educationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 54% · 2023 63% · 2024 52% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $790k → $60k.
2 of 11 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 TRUST 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 TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 85% · 2022 70% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of LITERACY TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of LITERACY TRUST INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Venable Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cambiar Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Education Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overdeck Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Koshland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Forward Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellwether Education Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arrow Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lead Liberatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITERACY TRUST INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 TRUST INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY TRUST INC?
- LITERACY TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,455,156 to it, the largest being BENEDICT SILVERMAN FOUNDATION ($5,880,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $6,455,156 in grants to LITERACY TRUST INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY TRUST INC?
- BENEDICT SILVERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,880,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY TRUST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing