Funding search · literacy · Pennsylvania
Who funds literacy work in Pennsylvania
15 funders have a record of paying for literacy work by Pennsylvania recipients: 52 grants totaling $3.1M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The William Penn Foundation ($1.1M), Proliteracy Worldwide ($66,467) and The Grable Foundation ($160,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Pennsylvania recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $350,000 to PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND — expand a summer literacy program designed to combat summer learning loss for elementary students
Proliteracy WorldwideSyracuse, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $66,467 · through 2024Largest: $13,093 to LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — literacy programs
Largest: $50,000 to READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — to support early literacy programming for young children and their families
Largest: $100,000 to MACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER — to provide operating support to macedonia face's family programs, including the early literacy program and to assist staff in implementing recommendations from the recently complet…
Dollar General Literacy FoundationGoodlettsville, TNCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $35,500 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM AT KENNETT LIBRARY — adult literacy
McAuley MinistriesPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $365,000 · through 2024Largest: $127,500 to READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — childrens literacy programming
Largest: $75,000 to SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — to provide summer and after-school literacy programming for pre-k-3rd grade students in new york city
Largest: $50,000 to Achieve Now — literacy programs
Zeigler Family FoundationSchwenksville, PA
2 matching grants · $204,625 · through 2024Largest: $104,625 to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN PA — financial literacy programs for spring 202 ($54,625)ja finance park simulation scholarship ($50,000)
United Way of Bradford CountyTowanda, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $48,000 · through 2024Largest: $18,000 to BRADFORD WYOMING CO LITERACY PROGRAM — program operating costs
The Philadelphia FoundationPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $249,850 · through 2024Largest: $199,850 to MIGHTY WRITERS — ost - literacy program
Largest: $6,000 to PRIME STAGE — to support teachers and students in underserved schools with literacy programs that use theatre to bring literature to life, over three years
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