Ohio · Nonprofit
LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC
LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,253 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,810,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $616k
What Literacy Council of North America Inc does
Mission
We achieve reading and writing success for children through partnerships that foster reading recovery in english, spanish, or french as an essential intervention within a comprehensive literacy system, teaching of children that is expert and responsive, professional development for teachers that is specialized and continuous, ongoing development of knowledge and practice based on research, data, and the theoretical framework that has underpinned reading recovery since its founding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional education - supported professional development for teachers, teacher leaders, site coordinators, trainers, and volunteers through the national reading recovery conference and pre-conference institutes,the teacher leader institute, scholarships for teacher leader training, and professional development grants.
$567,820 spentof which $41,435 as grants$640,707 earned by the program71% of program spendingPublic information - provided general public and members with information about reading recovery and early literacy through telephone and mail inquiries, publication of related information and data, and website services.
$121,715 spent15% of program spendingMembership resources-includes the magazine "the journal of reading recovery and other web-based services including searchable reading recovery book list and labels, reading recovery lesson forms, listening library, member directory, online library and communication resources.
$104,952 spent$87,412 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther programs, including the promotion of reading recovery, uphold integrity, and communicate information through standards and guidelines, training and publications.
$82,996 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $794,487.
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 $1.6M to $2.4M (+47%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $455k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA 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
LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
97% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC'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. Of the $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC is better cushioned 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
Organizations like LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC: 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 LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC?
- LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,253 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,810,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,867,253 in grants to LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 4 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