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TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC

TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,488 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC ($164,134). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$81k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$296k
Net assets
$112k
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Tri-State Literacy Council Inc does

Mission

Free literacy and numeracy tutoring for adults, free GED classes for adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. 50 adult learners received 2736 hours of literacy or numeracy instruction in accordance with their individual literacy goals.

    $64,628 spentof which $80,524 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,628.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2022 Revenue 78 ($49k) Expenses 101 ($62k) Net assets 81 ($56k)2023 Revenue 109 ($68k) Expenses 94 ($57k) Net assets 98 ($67k)2024 Revenue 143 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 140 ($96k)2025 Revenue 128 ($81k) Expenses 106 ($65k) Net assets 163 ($112k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (128)Expenses (106)Net assets (163)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $67k to $96k (+43%).

$69k
$56k
$67k
$96k
$112k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’21
−$13k
’22
$11k
’23
$29k
’24
$16k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $16k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
2
2
2
3
4
3
2
3
2
1

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TRI-STATE 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

TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC.

55%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 60% · 2019 58% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 59% · 2023 63% — 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

61% of TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.

WV
MD
TN

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC

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In West Virginia

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WV

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,488 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC ($164,134). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $296,488 in grants to TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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