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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 495 grants totaling $19.1 million went to literacy programs-related work in Texas. 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 Texas, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION1$2.3 million
ABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE2$2.3 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC11$1.9 million
The Moody Foundation10$1.2 million
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc3$901,661
CHARITY LEAGUE OF CORPUS CHRISTI2$692,690
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION58$542,700
BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION7$409,400
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC5$401,188
Permanent Endowment Fund of3$380,000

Across all funders: 495 grants, $19.1 million total, median grant $10,000.

Largest recipients in Texas

RecipientGrantsTotal
DALLAS ISD1$2.3 million
ABILENE CULTURAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL AFFILIATE OF ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2$2.3 million
BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION23$2.0 million
C C Literacy Council2$692,690
LITERACY ACHIEVES16$667,290
Literacy Now11$569,749
Goodwill Industries of San Antonio1$556,661
Austin Public Education Foundation1$500,000
SMART Family Literacy Inc9$497,387
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN3$359,025

Open federal opportunities addressing literacy programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Texas 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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