New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,350 to it, the largest being NELSON B DELAVAN FOUND PART A XXXXX9000 ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC's revenue fell 27% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,826 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Bonafiglia Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
100% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC’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. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA 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 SENECA COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 89% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 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.
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.
- Bonafiglia Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Machinery Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battram Community Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Home Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nora Roberts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Founportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 SENECA COUNTY 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.
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 SENECA COUNTY INC?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,350 to it, the largest being NELSON B DELAVAN FOUND PART A XXXXX9000 ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,350 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC?
- NELSON B DELAVAN FOUND PART A XXXXX9000 is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SENECA COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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