Rhode Island · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550 to it, the largest being WISH YOU WELL FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Literacy Volunteers of Kent County does
Program
We train adult volunteers to tutor adults and teens that are no longer in a traditional academic program, whose literacy and/or mathematical skills are below acceptable levels for continuing education, high school credential or entry into a college or career-oriented program and/or citizenship tests.
$1,574 spentof which $20,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,574.
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 $70k to $93k (+32%).
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.
91% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY’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 KENT COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 KENT COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 KENT COUNTY draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 KENT COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY: 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 KENT COUNTY?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550 to it, the largest being WISH YOU WELL FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,550 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY?
- WISH YOU WELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENT COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 3 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