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Racine Literacy Council Inc

Racine Literacy Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,274 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ($481,111). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$387k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$945k
Net assets
$206k
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Racine Literacy Council Inc does

Mission

To provide reading and writing instruction to racine county residents through the use of trained volunteer tutors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. First accomplishment basic literacy - the lack of basic literacy skills has proven to contribute to lower paying jobs, crime, lack of civic and community involvement, and low self-esteem. Our basic literacy program caters to students with low literacy skills in reading, writing, and math. This curriculum is a student-centered program that caters to adults. Our program includes a variety of levels, from reading and writing for beginners to ged test prep. English language learner - communicating in the english language is essential for success in the united states. We have designed an ell program to assist adults in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing english. Ell students come to the rlc seeking to improve their english at work, communicate better in the schools of their children, and be better advocates for themselves in the community. In addition to tutoring, ell students can participate in additional conversation or computer classes. Eligible students may choose to take the citizenship class, offered 3-4x a year. All additional programs currently scheduled include ged prep classes, written driver's license / commercial drivers license test tutoring, health literacy,…

    $297,993 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $297,993.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($218k) Expenses 100 ($224k) Net assets 100 ($408k)2018 Revenue 89 ($195k) Expenses 98 ($221k) Net assets 94 ($382k)2019 Revenue 89 ($193k) Expenses 93 ($208k) Net assets 72 ($295k)2020 Revenue 75 ($164k) Expenses 87 ($194k) Net assets 65 ($265k)2021 Revenue 101 ($220k) Expenses 78 ($174k) Net assets 76 ($310k)2022 Revenue 80 ($175k) Expenses 88 ($197k) Net assets 69 ($281k)2023 Revenue 116 ($252k) Expenses 125 ($280k) Net assets 76 ($310k)2024 Revenue 121 ($264k) Expenses 165 ($369k) Net assets 51 ($207k)2025 Revenue 177 ($387k) Expenses 174 ($390k) Net assets 51 ($206k)
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Revenue (177)Expenses (174)Net assets (51)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $409k to $325k (−20%).

$434k
$409k
$325k
$314k
$334k
$294k
$328k
$265k
$265k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 13% · 2019 21% · 2022 42% · 2023 55% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$26k
’18
−$15k
’19
−$30k
’20
$46k
’21
−$22k
’22
−$28k
’23
−$104k
’24
−$3k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

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Listed1212111013101112
Joined·+3+2·+5+3+3+3
No longer listed·33·2622
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $85k → $178k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Racine Literacy Council 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

Racine Literacy Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 Racine Literacy Council Inc.

51%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 87% · 2020 65% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 28% — 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

55% of Racine Literacy Council Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of Racine Literacy Council Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

IL
WI
NJ
TN
FL

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Racine Literacy Council Inc

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In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Racine Literacy Council Inc?
Racine Literacy Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,274 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ($481,111). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Racine Literacy Council Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $945,274 in grants to Racine Literacy Council Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Racine Literacy Council Inc?
UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $481,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Racine Literacy Council Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing