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LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,325 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($77,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$156k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
$115k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Literacy Volunteers of South Sarasota County Inc does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to help foreign-born adults learn English as a Second Language (ESL) and help English-speaking adults improve their reading skills (Basic Adult Literacy). Volunteers are trained to become tutors to adult learners in both English as a Second Language (ESL) and Basic Adult Literacy (Reading and Writing). Adult learners are also helped with American customs and citizenship. Services are provided free of charge to adult learners.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. During the year that ended June 30, 2024, 222 volunteer 1-to-1 tutors and ESL instructors provided 14,940 hours of instruction to 458 adult learners free of charge. Volunteer trainers provided instruction to 87 new volunteers who became tutors.

    $97,373 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,373.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2019 Revenue 80 ($66k) Expenses 89 ($72k) Net assets 82 ($54k)2020 Revenue 86 ($71k) Expenses 80 ($65k) Net assets 92 ($60k)2021 Revenue 130 ($107k) Expenses 83 ($67k) Net assets 152 ($99k)2022 Revenue 68 ($56k) Expenses 86 ($69k) Net assets 131 ($86k)2023 Revenue 93 ($76k) Expenses 87 ($70k) Net assets 141 ($92k)2024 Revenue 105 ($86k) Expenses 129 ($104k) Net assets 114 ($74k)2025 Revenue 190 ($156k) Expenses 142 ($115k) Net assets 177 ($115k)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (142)Net assets (177)Peer revenue range

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 $80k to $120k (+51%).

$67k
$54k
$69k
$100k
$88k
$94k
$80k
$120k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’18
−$7k
’19
$6k
’20
$39k
’21
−$14k
’22
$6k
’23
−$18k
’24
$41k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $5k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SOUTH SARASOTA 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 SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC.

48%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 49% · 2019 97% · 2020 30% · 2021 99% · 2022 62% · 2023 99% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

59% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $65k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 5 states.

NY
OH
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NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC?
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,325 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($77,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $160,325 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 8 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