Georgia · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY
VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,500 to it, the largest being HABERSHAM COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ($144,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- St Marys Methodist Church Foundation Ishared funders
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $33k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY’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
VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 62% — 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
88% of VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 396 organizations that share them.
- St Marys Methodist Church Foundation Ishared fundersGA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flint Energies Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Planters Telecommunications Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faithhope & Charity Recycle Store Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bvm Capacity Building Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas T and Bernice F Irvin Foundation InclocalGA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Boyce and Gail Dooley Family FoundationlocalGA · funds 2 organizations near you
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 VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
63%
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 VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY: 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY?
- VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,500 to it, the largest being HABERSHAM COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ($144,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $198,500 in grants to VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY?
- HABERSHAM COUNTY UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $144,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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