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Who funds literacy programs in New York? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 457 grants totaling $26.9 million went to literacy programs-related work in New York. 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 New York, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION1$4.2 million
THE CARMEL HILL FUND20$3.0 million
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION22$2.7 million
THE PATRICK J MCGOVERN FOUNDATION INC3$1.5 million
Town Branch Foundation1$1.3 million
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5$1.2 million
NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION8$961,500
EDUCATIONAL CREDIT1$787,213
LOUIS CALDER FOUNDATION1$750,000
CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION5$606,042

Across all funders: 457 grants, $26.9 million total, median grant $10,000.

Largest recipients in New York

RecipientGrantsTotal
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC1$4.2 million
ProLiteracy Worldwide13$2.5 million
LITERACY INC34$1.6 million
TNTP Inc1$1.3 million
QUILLORG2$1.2 million
LITERACY PARTNERS INC16$1.2 million
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS1$860,000
EDQUITY INC1$787,213
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2$750,000
PRO LITERACY1$750,000

Open federal opportunities addressing literacy programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in New York 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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