Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER
WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,832 to it, the largest being CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY ($637,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-675495
What Washington Literacy Center does
Mission
The mission of the Washington Literacy Center is to raise the literacy level of adults in washington, dc such that they may function on the job, in the family and in society. Program offerings have expanded to include digital, woprkplace, math, financial and health literacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Washington Literacy Center provides small group instruction to district of columbia adults to improve their basic read, math and workplace skills. The wlc accomplishes this goal with a small professional staff to deliver direct services, and volunteers to provide additional support.
$702,461 spent98% of program spendingWlc is a vendor for the temporary assistance for needy families (tanf), a dc dept of human services contract that provides income assistance, educational training, and other supportive services to low income families with children.
$17,285 spent$627,680 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $719,746.
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 2022 to 2023, from $181k to $988k (+444%).
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 40% · 2021 92% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $142k → $87k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER’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
WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 81% · 2019 99% · 2020 74% · 2021 65% · 2022 97% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k 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 WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER: 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 WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER?
- WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,832 to it, the largest being CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY ($637,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,263,832 in grants to WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER?
- CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY is the largest funder on record, with $637,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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