North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILKES LITERACY INC
WILKES LITERACY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,418 to it, the largest being United Way of Wilkes County Inc ($67,563). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Wilkes Literacy Inc does
Mission
To teach, through trained volunteers, reading and writing to those in need while raising public awareness of the literacy needs of wilkes county residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Children's literacy: summer educational enrichment for kids (seek) provides educational and recreational activities for children during the summer months. This program servies children in grades k-12 in wilkes county.
$10,512 spent24% of program spendingHealth literacy: program provides free resources for all adults to positively affect health care outcomes in the community. Wilkes literacy helps adults work to achieve better health and advocate for themselves in the healthcare system.
$20,118 spent45% of program spendingAdult literacy: individualized one-to-one tutoring for adults who wish to learn to read or improve existing reading and writing skills. The agency provides resources and assistance to caregivers working with individuals who need help with reading.
$13,682 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,312.
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 2024 to 2025, from $79k to $115k (+46%).
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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jean Hefner
Executive director
Board chair
Thomas Mcmahan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of WILKES LITERACY INC’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
WILKES LITERACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 WILKES LITERACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 42% · 2023 72% — 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
98% of WILKES LITERACY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like WILKES LITERACY INC
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 WILKES LITERACY 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 WILKES LITERACY INC?
- WILKES LITERACY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,418 to it, the largest being United Way of Wilkes County Inc ($67,563). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILKES LITERACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,418 in grants to WILKES LITERACY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILKES LITERACY INC?
- United Way of Wilkes County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $67,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILKES LITERACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 6 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