Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The American Literacy Corporation
The American Literacy Corporation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MCCORMICK FAMILY FDN AGENT 80397 ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $8k
What The American Literacy Corporation does
Mission
Superreader program for elementary kids
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Superreader is an innovative reading initiative to motivate, excite and shape positive attitudes toward reading in elementary age students. Encourages tutor programs
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $23k to $22k (−6%).
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.
37% of The American Literacy Corporation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of The American Literacy Corporation’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
The American Literacy Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
The American Literacy Corporation draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The American Literacy Corporation has grown faster than half of the 17,624 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like The American Literacy Corporation
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 The American Literacy Corporation: 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 The American Literacy Corporation?
- The American Literacy Corporation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MCCORMICK FAMILY FDN AGENT 80397 ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The American Literacy Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to The American Literacy Corporation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The American Literacy Corporation?
- MCCORMICK FAMILY FDN AGENT 80397 is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The American Literacy Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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