Indiana · Nonprofit
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,391 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ($307,793). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $835k
What The Literacy Alliance Inc does
Mission
Literacy changes lives. Our mission is to empower people and strengthen community through education. In support of its mission, the literacy alliance serves adults through free instruction in adult basic education skills, high school equivalency preparation, and english language learning. Tla serves k-3 school children by providing tutors who help students achieve grade-level reading goals. The literacy alliance collaborates with local schools and community organizations to provide on-site instruction and mutual referrals. Tla also places a family library in each new habitat for humanity home at the time of dedication. Volunteers are an essential part of the instruction team in all program areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The literacy alliance began operating project reads in fy 21-22. Project reads serves k-3 students to help them attain grade-level reading. All other programs serve adults by offering adult basic education in reading, writing and math under the guidance of teachers, site coordinators and volunteer tutors. Project build assists in basic skill building. Project graduate offers high school equivalency preparation. Project connect offers english language learning. All programs are free of cost to students. In 2024-25, 614 total students were served. Staff was assisted by 193 volunteers providing 5,502 hours of service.
$1,238,596 spent$74,990 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,238,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $609k to $1.0M (+72%).
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: 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% · 2024 26% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Melinda Haines
CEO
Board chair
Isabel Nunez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $101k → $261k.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 49% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 20% — 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
60% of THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LITERACY ALLIANCE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 LITERACY ALLIANCE 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 THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC?
- THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,391 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ($307,793). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,874,391 in grants to THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC is the largest funder on record, with $307,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing