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LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,022 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($55,117). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$87k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$112k
Net assets
$76k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset Counties does

Mission

To empower adults through learner-based tutoring

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The tutoring program serves adults with a 12th grade reading level or lower through both in person and virtual one to one tutoring with trained volunteers, hybrid weekly classes for adult learners and interested community members, and collaborations with local organizations to ensure their programming meets the needs of adult literacy learners.

    $44,820 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. Promoting literacy in the community through sharing donated books through book give away events and free book shelves in the community, participating in community events with literacy activities and presentations, and holding an annual poetry contest and community poetry reading.

    $46,649 spent
    51% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,469.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2023 Revenue 219 ($96k) Expenses 103 ($79k) Net assets 128 ($82k)2024 Revenue 249 ($109k) Expenses 119 ($91k) Net assets 157 ($100k)2025 Revenue 198 ($87k) Expenses 146 ($112k) Net assets 118 ($76k)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (146)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $100k to $76k (−25%).

$64k
$82k
$100k
$76k
2022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’22
$18k
’23
$19k
’24
−$25k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $14k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES’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 VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

75% 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 VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES.

49%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 64% — 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 VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

54% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
OH
NJ

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

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

State$10k
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Top programs
  • DEDICATED$7k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
  • FEDERAL$634

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES

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In Maine

Nationally

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 VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES?
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,022 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($55,117). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $112,022 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $55,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing