New York · Nonprofit
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,776,078 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($5,276,199). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Proliteracy Worldwide does
Mission
Every adult has a right to literacy. Proliteracy develops and promotes adult literacy learning, content, and programs to increase adult literacy rates worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program and professional services - domestic programsassisted over 1200 literacy groups and their volunteers and students through training, technical assistance and financial support of their programs common to proliteracy's mission.
$2,860,439 spentof which $1,165,288 as grants$292,114 earned by the program28% of program spendingPublishing - for over 50 years we have been providing educators with instructional tools to help adult learners build the skills needed to succeed in the world today. Proceeds from our product sales support the mission of proliteracy, to change lives and communities through the power of adult literacy. We serve 6,800+ programs in the us and 250 international programs across 32 countries.
$7,181,611 spent$7,406,651 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,042,050.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $19M (+21%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mark Vineis
President/CEO
Board chair
Kate Costello-Sullivan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $389k → $760k.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 69% · 2019 60% · 2020 57% · 2021 37% · 2022 54% · 2023 46% — 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
36% of PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $128k on record.
- Department of Justice$105k
- Department of State$23k
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 PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE: 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 PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE?
- PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,776,078 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($5,276,199). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $8,776,078 in grants to PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,276,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 34 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