Connecticut · Nonprofit
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,340 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($63,144). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $317k
- Net assets
- $331k
What Literacy Volunteers on the Green does
Mission
To promote english as a second language and literacy instruction to adults in the connecticut towns of bridgewater, kent, new milford, roxbury, sherman, warren, washington and surrounding areas in order to help people become independent readers, writers, listeners and speakers of english, and allow them to gain comprehension through natural, authentic, real life activities and experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided english as a second language assistance to over 100 students
$172,750 spentof which $13,600 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,750.
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 2022 to 2023, from $268k to $334k (+25%).
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.
96% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $16k → $63k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 ON THE GREEN’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 ON THE GREEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 ON THE GREEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 59% · 2019 27% · 2020 32% · 2021 34% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
62% of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ON THE GREEN's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN?
- LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,340 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($63,144). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $317,340 in grants to LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN?
- THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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