North Dakota · Nonprofit
WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER
WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being BUCK AND LOIS SCHEELE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 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.
- American Legion 37 Edgar M Boydshared funderslocal
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio match
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN STAR 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
WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
67% of WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- American Legion 37 Edgar M Boydshared funderslocalND · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Messerli & Kramer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bagnard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mills Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Families Learning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN STAR 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.
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 WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER?
- WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being BUCK AND LOIS SCHEELE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER?
- BUCK AND LOIS SCHEELE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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