Funding search · literacy · North Carolina
Who funds literacy work in North Carolina
15 funders have a record of paying for literacy work by North Carolina recipients: 97 grants totaling $3.7M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Duke Endowment ($2.5M), Proliteracy Worldwide ($48,349) and Orange County Partnership for Young ($214,499).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to North Carolina recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $90,000 to SEASIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — to test a summer literacy program.
Largest: $75,000 to HELPING EDUCATION — program support to deliver reading fluency literacy programming to cms students.
Largest: $17,500 to ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL — support adult literacy program.
Proliteracy WorldwideSyracuse, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $48,349 · through 2024Largest: $6,349 to DURHAM LITERACY CENTER — literacy programs
Orange County Partnership for YoungHillsborough, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $214,499 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL — family literacy program
Down East Partnership for ChildrenRocky Mount, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $201,702 · through 2024Largest: $54,023 to Braswell Memorial Library — literacy program
Largest: $15,000 to FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — to support read charlotte, a literacy program of the foundation for the carolinas.
Largest: $35,000 to Mt Calvary Baptist Church — literacy & enrichment program
Burke County Smart StartMorganton, NCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $100,175 · through 2024Largest: $33,725 to BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — family literacy program - early childhood education
Largest: $75,000 to THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT — bethel literacy program support and expansion
Largest: $41,800 to THE SALVATION ARMY — joshua's challenge literacy program
Largest: $20,000 to OUR DAILY BREAD FOUNDATION — it's all about the dough financial literacy program
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