India Literacy Project

Analysis

India Literacy Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Burlingame, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, India Literacy Project reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $992k to $1.2m (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, India Literacy Project sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dalit Solidarity ($1.2m), Amitofo Care Center International ($1.2m) and Friends of the American University of Afghanistan ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $731, net assets of $3.4m.