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Who funds literacy programs in North Carolina? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 372 grants totaling $12.3 million went to literacy programs-related work in North Carolina. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of literacy programs in North Carolina, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
LENOIR-GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN2$2.1 million
THE DUKE ENDOWMENT24$1.7 million
THE BELK FOUNDATION17$1.2 million
DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST14$1.2 million
THE OAK FOUNDATION USA1$750,000
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION35$331,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION7$308,965
Barnhill Family Foundation2$268,613
Charlotte Wine & Food Weekend Inc2$210,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA1$207,565

Across all funders: 372 grants, $12.3 million total, median grant $10,000.

Largest recipients in North Carolina

RecipientGrantsTotal
Lenoir County Public Schools1$1.3 million
Greene County Public Schools1$849,045
BOOK HARVEST3$781,000
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - CHARLOTTE6$434,500
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT11$427,040
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH1$318,607
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT-CHARLOTTE12$307,446
LITERACY TOGETHER17$304,854
YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE4$300,000
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF METROLINA INC3$240,000

Open federal opportunities addressing literacy programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in North Carolina can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "literacy"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: literacy, adult education, reading.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
PAS-JAKARTA-FY26-11Media Literacy and Capacity Building Workshop SeriesYenny Wijaya Grantor$200,000 to $250,00009/02/2026
PA-FPH-27-001Title X Family Planning Services GrantsOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Health$200,000 to $22.0 million01/11/2027
23-520Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraU.S. National Science Foundationunspecified to $1.0 million01/21/2027
HHS-2026-ACL-AOD-DFLA-0025Expanding Financial Literacy and Empowerment: Increasing Awareness and Use of ABAdministration for Community Living$1.0 million to $1.2 million08/03/2026
PD-SEOUL-FY26-04Young Trilateral Leaders (YTL) SummitKyung Hee KANG Seoul PD Grants Team$200,000 to $250,00008/05/2026
LBN-PDS-2026-NOFONotice of Funding Opportunity 2026 – LebanonRiad N Yazbeck Grantor$100,000 to $250,00008/07/2026
PAS-JAKARTA-FY26-06Voices for the FutureYenny Wijaya Grantor$50,000 to $150,00008/07/2026
PDS-CAIRO-004-FY26Mentor Program for English EducatorsSally Wissa Grantor$100,000 to $150,00008/09/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 60 listings mentioning "literacy programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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