Nevada · Nonprofit
Northern Nevada Literacy Council
Northern Nevada Literacy Council (Nevada) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $962,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($280,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $962k
- Net assets
- $771k
What Northern Nevada Literacy Council does
Mission
Northern Nevada Literacy Council provides free adult education classes and career training. Helping adult learners complete and achieve further goals in education by providing free classes for high school equivalency, english as a second language, citizenship, and career training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult basic instruction grant: this program provides monies to administer programs of adult education. Adult education includes reading, writing, and math skills at a level below high school completion. Adult education programs are federally funded through the adult education and family literacy act.
$795,484 spent$795,484 earned by the program37% of program spendingIntegrated english literacy and civics grant: this program provides instruction for english literacy, civics, and rights and responsibilities of citizenship. It assists students to improve literacy skill levels in reading, writing, and speaking the english language, numeracy, problem solving, and english language acquisition. This instruction assists them with post secondary education, training, employment, and career advancement.
$332,484 spent$332,484 earned by the program15% of program spendingYouthbuild grant: this program is used to assess, educate, train, and secure employment for out of school youth.
$446,215 spent$446,215 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther program services: other educational programs for adults and families.
$582,400 spent$582,400 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,156,583.
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 $613k to $891k (+45%).
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: 2017 78% · 2018 72% · 2019 76% · 2020 84% · 2021 84% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% · 2024 82% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Northern Nevada Literacy Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Board chair
Shannon Chambers
Chair/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $98k → $220k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Northern Nevada Literacy Council’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
Northern Nevada Literacy Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Northern Nevada Literacy Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 40% · 2019 56% · 2020 28% · 2021 46% · 2022 63% · 2023 80% — 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
18% of Northern Nevada Literacy Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
Northern Nevada Literacy Council draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k 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
Northern Nevada Literacy Council has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Northern Nevada Literacy Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Northern Nevada Literacy Council
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northern Nevada Literacy Council: 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 Northern Nevada Literacy Council?
- Northern Nevada Literacy Council (Nevada) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $962,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($280,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern Nevada Literacy Council have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $962,031 in grants to Northern Nevada Literacy Council, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Nevada Literacy Council?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $280,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Nevada Literacy Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 13 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