New Jersey · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,230 to it, the largest being Billian Family Charitable Foundation ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- New Jersey State Bar Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared funders
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 94% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% · 2024 92% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $30k.
1 of 4 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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY 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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2017 60% · 2018 67% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNJ · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Jersey State Bar Foundationlocalportfolio matchNJ · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared fundersLA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kearnybank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pseg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Foundation of the Orangesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Provident Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Jersey Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Government funding LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $914k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$400k
- FEDERAL$288k
- GRANT IN AID$150k
- DEDICATED$76k
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 AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY 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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,230 to it, the largest being Billian Family Charitable Foundation ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $175,230 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC?
- Billian Family Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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