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Top 25 Literacy nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 95 literacy nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,995 professional contacts across them, including 470 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers literacy nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest literacy nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 346 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saga Education is the nonprofit leader in high-impact tutoring, with an ROI that is among the best nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission is to prevent the following societal problems: suicide, precarity and poverty, school truancy, and bullying, in addition to lack literacy and numeracy, college…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our aim is to facilitate opportunities for racialized and minoritized students to connects to practical pathways to upward social mobility through education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At City Year, we believe education has the power to help every student reach his or her potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genesys Works Chicago's mission is to provide pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experiences…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Junior Achievement of Chicago partners with Chicago-area companies to create the workforce of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WITS believes that literacy is the foundation on which all other learning develops.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1988, Communities In Schools (CIS) of Chicago is a non-profit organization and affiliate of Communities In Schools, Inc, one of the nation's largest and most impactful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Open Books helps transform lives through reading, writing, and the unlimited power of books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Great Books Foundation helps create a world of readers and thinkers of all ages.* We create reading and discussion programs for students and adults in the conviction that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its establishment in 2001, EE has brought to life a wealth of programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Redwood Literacy is committed to offering research-based reading, writing and math interventions at an accessible price point for people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In Chicago, decades of systemic disinvestment have left many communities without access to quality education, career pathways, or economic opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Black Star Project was founded in 1996 to improve the quality of life in the Black American and Latino communities of Chicago by eliminating the racial academic achievement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Media Education Lab advances the practice of media literacy education through research, leadership development, and community service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nerdy Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering Chicago’s youth and families by connecting “nerdy” interests to 21st century skill development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Chicago Poetry Center promotes poetry across Chicago through a variety of programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Literacy Chicago is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the literacy skills of Chicago-area adults and families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reading In Motion's goal is to get every student reading at grade level or above during their early years, especially students in greater need of support because of their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chicago Youth Programs (CYP) is an award-winning, innovative program created by Northwestern University medical students in 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The changing worlds of technology, career readiness, and healthcare impact all of us, but for the adults in Chicago with low basic skills, these shifting landscapes present even…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accelerate Institute exists to ensure students in under-resourced and marginalized communities have equal access to a high-quality education and safe and nurturing school…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Economic Awareness Council is a non-profit organization whose mission is to prepare students and families for the economic and financial decisions they will make both today…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: literacy nonprofits. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names literacy nonprofits.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of literacy nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name literacy nonprofits. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Literacy nonprofits based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 95 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among literacy nonprofits, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “literacy nonprofits”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names literacy nonprofits), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among literacy nonprofits, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 470 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Literacy nonprofits by metro in the United States
- Literacy nonprofits in New York201
- Literacy nonprofits in Chicago95
- Literacy nonprofits in Los Angeles91
- Literacy nonprofits in Washington79
- Literacy nonprofits in Houston70
- Literacy nonprofits in Atlanta69
- Literacy nonprofits in Philadelphia58
- Literacy nonprofits in Boston48
- Literacy nonprofits in San Francisco43
- Literacy nonprofits in Austin41
- Literacy nonprofits in Dallas41
- Literacy nonprofits in Charlotte36
- Literacy nonprofits in Portland36
- Literacy nonprofits in Denver35
- Literacy nonprofits in Miami34
- Literacy nonprofits in Seattle32
- Literacy nonprofits in Nashville29
- Literacy nonprofits in Phoenix29
- Literacy nonprofits in Oakland28
- Literacy nonprofits in Detroit26
- Literacy nonprofits in Minneapolis26
- Literacy nonprofits in San Antonio25
- Literacy nonprofits in San Diego25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names literacy nonprofits, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many literacy nonprofits are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 95 literacy nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Saga Education, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most literacy nonprofits?
New York leads with 201 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (95) and Los Angeles (91).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 470 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 95 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
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