Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,674 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($205,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $757k
- Net assets
- $248k
What Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester Inc does
Mission
To provide social and economic empowerment through culturally compassionate english language education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lvgw provides adult literacy and esol education through one-on-one instruction and group classes. During the year, students received one-on-one tutoring and attended esol classes.
$152,210 spent100% of program spendingN/a
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The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,210.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $178k to $248k (+39%).
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 14% · 2018 9% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% · 2024 20% · 2025 15%. 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $12k → $92k.
2 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 WORCESTER 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 GREATER WORCESTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 WORCESTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 30% · 2020 50% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% — 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
53% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
69% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k 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.
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,674 to it, the largest being GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($205,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $756,674 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC?
- GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 27 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