Illinois · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,589 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $589k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $338k
What Literacy Volunteers of Illinois does
Mission
Literacy Volunteers of Illinois is a non for profit statewide organization committed to developing and supporting volunteer literacy programs that help familiies, adults, and out of school teens increase their literacy skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The volunteer outreach for community action in literacy, herein referred to as vocal, is a federally funded national service program that recruits, trains and places americorps members in community and faith-based agencies to serve as tutors, tutor recruiters, and classroom aides in adult basic literacy and english as a second language programs. Throughout the fiscal year, vocal received $60,422 of donated services.
$461,791 spent$43,567 earned by the program74% of program spendingJump start is a one-to-one tutoring program in the illinois youth centers, which are state-operated secure centers for delinquent youth. The program serves two types of youth - low level youth performing below a 6th grade level and higher level youth pursuing a ged. Youth are referred to the program by teachers, but participation is voluntary.
$115,474 spent19% of program spendingThe training center involves research, policy advising, and program development at the local, state, and national levels. It also serves as a clearing house for information and referral, sponsors two annual conferences, and provides evaluative services for the uic center for literacys family start literacy centers.
$45,350 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $622,615.
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 2020 to 2021, from $462k to $650k (+41%).
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 66% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 66% · 2021 67% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% · 2024 77% · 2025 80%. 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.
Chief executive
Chamala Jordan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $39.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ILLINOIS’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 ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
62% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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 ILLINOIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS: 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 ILLINOIS?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,589 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $23,589 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 5 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