Michigan · Nonprofit
WASHTENAW LITERACY
WASHTENAW LITERACY (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,741,425 to it, the largest being VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($585,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $599k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $578k
What Washtenaw Literacy does
Mission
Washtenaw Literacy partners with adult learners to develop their skills and pursue their goals by providing free literacy support through a network of trained volunteer tutors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provision of free literacy programs and services for adult learners throughout washtenaw county, including reading, writing, math, digital skills, and english as a second language. We serve approx. 1,000 learners through the efforts of almost 400 volunteer tutors that we recruited, trained, and coordinated for a total of 48,711 hours.
$289,213 spent$6,131 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,213.
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 2021 to 2022, from $332k to $439k (+32%).
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 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 9% · 2023 15% · 2024 24% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $138k → $188k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WASHTENAW 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
WASHTENAW LITERACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 WASHTENAW LITERACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 29% · 2019 33% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 43% — 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
46% of WASHTENAW LITERACY'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
98% of WASHTENAW LITERACY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WASHTENAW LITERACY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 WASHTENAW 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHTENAW LITERACY?
- WASHTENAW LITERACY (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,741,425 to it, the largest being VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($585,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHTENAW LITERACY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,741,425 in grants to WASHTENAW LITERACY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHTENAW LITERACY?
- VAUGHAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHTENAW LITERACY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 20 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