California · Nonprofit
The Dyslexia Project
The Dyslexia Project (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being The Kirby-Jones Foundation ($95,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Dyslexia Project runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 19,715 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,715 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- William H Kearns Foundationshared funders
- National Home Library Foundationportfolio match
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of The Dyslexia Project’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 Dyslexia Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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: 2019 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
The Dyslexia Project draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 146 organizations that share them.
- William H Kearns Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- National Home Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marino Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Down Syndrome Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Whelan Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Annabelle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Dyslexia Project
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Dyslexia Project: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Dyslexia Project?
- The Dyslexia Project (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being The Kirby-Jones Foundation ($95,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Dyslexia Project have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to The Dyslexia Project, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Dyslexia Project?
- The Kirby-Jones Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Dyslexia Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing