South Carolina · Nonprofit
TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC
TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,546 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($360,302). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $660k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $983k
- Net assets
- $-138942
What Trident Literacy Association Inc does
Mission
The mission of trident literacy association is to eliminate all adult illiteracy and reverse the cycle of generational poverty in the charleston tri-county region. We will accomplish this through evidence-based programs facilitated by highly trained staff and volunteers supported by focused fundraising and fiscal sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy 2024, trident literacy association served 917 adult learners through its core education programs, including 789 english as a second language (esl) students and 128 individuals pursuing their ged.
$680,095 spent$103,667 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $680,095.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $186k to $382k (+105%).
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: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 49% · 2021 56% · 2022 46% · 2023 38% · 2024 79% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Gibson
Executive director
Board chair
Joann Sherman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $114k → $131k.
4 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 33% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 49% · 2022 27% · 2023 33% — 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
36% of TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION 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 TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC?
- TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,546 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($360,302). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $982,546 in grants to TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $360,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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