California · Nonprofit
MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM
MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $79,689 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($79,689). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Marin Literacy Program does
Mission
The Marin Literacy Program provides free adult, family, ESL (English as Second Language) and inmate literacy services in Marin County. Through our trained volunteer tutors and ESL instructors we liberate the voices and minds of our students with the power of literacy. We are also advocates for increased literacy services and work in partnership with libraries and in support of all organizations and activities that further the cause of literacy. We are supported by grants, community donations, and partnerships with libraries and philanthropic organizations. Since 1985 we have provided thousands of adults and families with free adult, family, inmate and ESL literacy services.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Prior to June 2011, the Marin Literacy Program was theprivate funding portion of a combined project with the SanRafael Public Library and the Marin County Free Libraryoperating together as 'The Marin Literacy Program', with a budget of over $600,000. After several years of the program running at a deficit, the board and affiliates agreed to dramatically re-structure the program to work within a budget of $135,000. The heart of the revitalized program is one-on-one tutoring with no cost to the recipient. The quality of instruction is maintained by aproven method of training volunteer tutors and matching them to adult students for the most effective learning relationship. Students with children less than 12 years of age are matched with a family literacy tutor, and in working with children's books, learn to become theirchild's first teacher while improving their own literacy skills. Adult English language learners who are unable to complete the initial intake interview in English are matched with a tutor who is bilingual in the student's first language or they referred to another ESL provider and partner, such as Canal Alliance, Tamalpais Adult School district or College of Marin.…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $36k to $15k (−59%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $26k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
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 MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM: 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 MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM?
- MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $79,689 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($79,689). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $79,689 in grants to MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $79,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN LITERACY PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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