New Jersey · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,047 to it, the largest being George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation ($90,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $491k
What Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County does
Mission
Lvsc's mission is to promote literacy throughout the community by providing student-centered tutoring and literacy programs for adults so that they may function more effectively in their daily lives. Continued schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lvsc recruits and trains volunteer tutors in the fundamentals of adult english literacy instruction and provides volunteers with ongoing tutoring support. Lvsc creates tutor-student matches which helps students learn practical everyday english skills and reach realistic learning goals. Lvsc's free programs include one-to-one tutoring, english conversation groups, beginner english classes, and on-demand us citizenship preparation support. Programming is offered in-person, virtually, or a combination of both.
$173,613 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,613.
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 2024 to 2025, from $284k to $491k (+73%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% · 2024 41% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Aimee Lam
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $39k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SOMERSET COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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 SOMERSET COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 SOMERSET COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% — 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
67% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
96% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SOMERSET 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 SOMERSET COUNTY?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,047 to it, the largest being George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation ($90,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $251,047 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY?
- George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 17 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