New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,036 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($68,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Literacy Volunteers of Broome-Tioga Counties Inc does
Mission
The mission of literacy volunteers of broome-tioga counties is to assist adults in developing functioning literacy skills. This includes improving the student's ability to read and write, perform basic math functions, and to use computers, as well as to speak and comprehend the english language. The service is provided at no cost to students. We utilize trained volunteers to provide these confidential educational services through a learner-centered approach that values and honors individual student needs and goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Assist adults in developing functioning literacy skills, including improving the student's ability to read and write, perform basic math functions, and to use computers, as well as to speak and comprehend the english language. Literacy volunteers of broome-tioga counties, inc. Provides programs promoting basic literacy, english for speakers of other languages (esol) and basic computer literacy at no charge to residents of broome and tioga counties and contiguous areas through volunteer tutoring. The organization is nationally accredited by pro literacy america and is supported primarily with grants from various government agencies.
$171,384 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,384.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $164k to $124k (−24%).
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: 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 2023 42% · 2024 36% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kristen Gordon Pier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $14k → $31k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES 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 BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 45% · 2022 48% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES 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 $86k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,036 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($68,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $178,036 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BROOME-TIOGA COUNTIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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