Arizona · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,867 to it, the largest being VNSA-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ($1,125,851). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Inc does
Mission
Empowering adults to achieve literacy and improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Established in 1982, Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County, Inc., (LVMC), a 501(c)(3) community-based organization, provides free educational services to adults, 16 years of age or older, who desire to learn to read, obtain the High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma by preparing them for the General Educational Development (GED) exam, or communicate in English. LVMC utilizes contextualized educational materials to help adults become literate, acquire soft skills and employability skills, attain an HSE and help immigrants and other adults who are English language learners improve their English and math skills as well as their understanding of the American system of government. LVMC desires to help adults attain employment and economic self-sufficiency, successfully participate in the educational development of their children, transition into postsecondary education and job skills training, and fully integrate and participate in our society. The organization is a member of ProLiteracy.LVMC has a proven track record of assisting basic skills deficient adults, increasing peoples literacy skills, facilitating the attainment of an HSE diploma, and helping immigrants and other…
$1,032,398 spent$21,450 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,032,398.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.8M to $2.4M (+37%).
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: 2018 77% · 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2021 80% · 2022 82% · 2023 73% · 2024 65% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $125k → $160k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MARICOPA COUNTY 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 MARICOPA COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 MARICOPA COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 91% · 2019 65% · 2020 93% · 2021 72% · 2022 67% · 2023 75% — 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
43% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
88% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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.
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,867 to it, the largest being VNSA-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ($1,125,851). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,419,867 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC?
- VNSA-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,851 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MARICOPA COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing