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LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,814,628 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,515,505). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$810k
Revenue FY2025
34
Funders on record
$2.8M
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
23/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($673k) Expenses 100 ($748k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 91 ($611k) Expenses 109 ($819k) Net assets 88 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 97 ($655k) Expenses 112 ($836k) Net assets 76 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 92 ($617k) Expenses 101 ($754k) Net assets 66 ($973k)2021 Revenue 114 ($765k) Expenses 88 ($658k) Net assets 82 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 87 ($588k) Expenses 91 ($682k) Net assets 71 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 146 ($984k) Expenses 95 ($711k) Net assets 93 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 135 ($906k) Expenses 114 ($851k) Net assets 101 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 120 ($810k) Expenses 101 ($757k) Net assets 110 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (101)Net assets (110)

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 22% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% · 2024 29% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
17
$208k
18
$181k
19
$137k
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$107k
21
$95k
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$273k
23
$55k
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$53k
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16
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $443k → $240k.

10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% 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 GREATER HARTFORD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 GREATER HARTFORD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 GREATER HARTFORD INC.

54%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 64% · 2019 70% · 2020 25% · 2021 45% · 2022 72% · 2023 45%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

48% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD 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 $955k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

IL
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
TN
NC
SC
GA

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

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 34 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 GREATER HARTFORD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.

State$48k
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Top programs
  • Educational Services$34k
  • Promotional Supplies$14k

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 GREATER HARTFORD 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 Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 3%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD 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.

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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 GREATER HARTFORD INC?
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,814,628 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,515,505). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,814,628 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC?
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $1,515,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 34funders 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