FIRST LITERACY INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B190

Classification

1000

Street

160 BOYLSTON ST 2ND FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS PROVIDE ADULT EDUCATORS WITH INFORMATION AND RESOURCES ON EVIDENCE-BASED TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND CURRICULUM DESIGN, CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES, AND STUDENT ASSESSMENT APPROACHES RELEVANT TO THE ADULT EDUCATION CLASSROOM. TEACHERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN WORKSHOPS, FACILITATED BY KNOWLEDGEABLE PEERS OR EXPERT CONSULTANTS, ARE SUPPORTED IN TRYING OUT NEW IDEAS IN THEIR CLASSROOM AND SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH PEERS ON SITE AND AT FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOPS.

  Expenses $216,782

• SCHOLARSHIPS AND SUPPORT FOR ADULT LEARNERS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED BASIC STUDIES IN AN ABE PROGRAM AND ARE PURSUING COLLEGE OR TECHNICAL EDUCATION ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A FIRST LITERACY SCHOLARSHIP. RECIPIENTS ARE AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND POTENTIAL, THEIR COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND THEIR RESILIENCY AND PERSEVERANCE IN THE FACE OF HARDSHIP. TO SUSTAIN THIS ONGOING LEARNING COMMUNITY, WE HOST SCHOLAR NETWORKING EVENINGS, INVITE SCHOLARS TO ALL FIRST LITERACY EVENTS, ASK INTERESTED SCHOLARS TO SPEAK AT EVENTS, AND FIRST LITERACY REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND ALL COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS WHERE OUR SCHOLARS ARE HONORED. WE ALSO LOOK FOR WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN MORE DEEPLY INVOLVE THE SCHOLARS WITH THE BROADER COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL LIFE OF OUR CITY.

  Expenses $143,327 · Grants $40,200

• FIRST LITERACY OFFERS SMALL GRANTS TO ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE PRACTICE AND TO STRENGTHEN PROGRAMS. THE FLEXIBILITY OF THESE GRANTS ALLOWS PROGRAMS TO MEET EMERGING STUDENT NEEDS IN A TIMELY FASHION. THE GRANTS ALSO ALLOW VENUES SUCH ASLIBRARIES AND VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS TO INTRODUCE OR EXPAND THEIR SERVICES TO IMMIGRANTS. RECIPIENTS OF FIRST LITERACY GRANTS SHARE THE RESULTS OF THEIR WORK WITH THE GREATER ABE COMMUNITY AT AN ANNUAL EVENT AND ARE SUPPORTED AND MENTORED TO BECOME FACILITATORS OFWORKSHOPS FOR ABE TEACHERS.

  Expenses $121,733 · Grants $31,250

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $796,853

  Expenses

  $700,620

  Contributions

  $475,748

  Grants paid

  $71,450

• 2022

  Revenue

  $490,804

  Expenses

  $752,639

  Contributions

  $270,070

  Grants paid

  $139,331

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $615,900

  Expenses

  $729,964

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,268,482

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $653,913

  Expenses

  $645,880

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,650,211

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $458,574

  Expenses

  $540,497

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,342,823

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $655,242

  Expenses

  $565,559

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,345,307

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $488,696

  Expenses

  $498,672

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,189,060

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $614,998

  Expenses

  $471,512

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,178,901

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $428,743

  Expenses

  $443,855

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,011,104

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $619,865

  Expenses

  $452,223

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,026,294

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $489,452

  Expenses

  $556,827

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,018,294

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $588,954

  Assets (EOY)

  $942,972

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO

  $0

  2022 · FOR PROGRAM CONSULTANT TO IMPROVES HISET IN SPANISH AND ESOL PROGRAM

• THE LITERACY PROJECT

  $0

  2022 · FOR READING CURRICULAM REALLY GREAT READING

• BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

  $0

  2022 · FOR PROGRAM CONSULTANT

• THE LITERACY PROJECT

  $0

  2023 · FOR READING CURRICULAM REALLY GREAT READING

• CASSERLY HOUSE

  $0

  2023 · LITERACY LAB PROGRAM GRANT

• CHARLESTOWN ADULT EDUCATION

  $0

  2023 · LITERACY LAB PROGRAM GRANT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $45,500

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST

  $35,500

  2024 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $25,250

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $23,850

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST

  $17,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2022 · EDUCATIONAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $11,550

  2024 · EDUCATION

• GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $11,500

  2024 · Education

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $10,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $6,050

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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