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California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching

To enhance, support and sustain high quality teaching and high quality public schools for all california students.

$754k
Granted FY2023
28
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $517,228 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $754,308 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $237,080 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $485k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERRIS ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSN$38,941
ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$37,675
UNITED EDUCATORS OF SF$25,000
REDLANDS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
PINER OLIVET EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION$20,000
PANAMA-BUENA VISTA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
SWEETWATER EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION$20,000
UNITED TEACHERS OF RICHMOND$20,000
COVINA UNIFIED EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION$20,000
SAN MATEO UHSD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
FONTANA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
HAYWARD EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION$20,000
NORTH COW CREEK EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION$20,000
FULLERTON ELEM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY EDUCATORS ASSN$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROCKLIN TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%PINER OLIVET EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%MOORPARK EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%GARDEN GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40k → 10%HAYWARD EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%UNITED EDUCATORS OF SF: $25k → 10%SAN DIEGO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 11%ALVORD EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY EDUCATORS ASSN: $20k → 12%FONTANA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%TRINITY ALPS UNIFIED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%INGLEWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%SANTA MARIA ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ASSN: $20k → 14%SALIDA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 15%WEST SACRAMENTO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $28k → 16%FORT BRAGG DISTRICT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 18%PANAMA-BUENA VISTA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 18%HANFORD ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $41k → 18%CENTRAL UNIFIED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%Merced Union HS District TA: $20k → 19%ROCKLIN TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%PINER OLIVET EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%JOHN SWETT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%MOORPARK EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%Garden Grove Education Association: $40k → 10%HAYWARD EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%UNITED EDUCATORS OF SF: $25k → 10%SAN DIEGO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 11%ASSOCIATION OF LINDEN EDUCATORS: $20k → 12%FONTANA TA: $20k → 14%NORTH COW CREEK EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%INGLEWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%SANTA MARIA ELEMENTARY EDUCATOR'S ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%WASHINGTON TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%FORT BRAGG DISTRICT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 18%CHICO UNIFIED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 18%MONTEBELLO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%CHULA VISTA EDUCATORS: $31k → 11%ELK GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $54k → 12%ELK GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $29k → 12%PERRIS ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSN: $39k → 11%ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $85k → 10%ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $58k → 10%Anaheim Secondary TA: $45k → 10%TEMECULA VALLEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%ANAHEIM SECONDARY TA: $40k → 10%ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $38k → 10%TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF LONG BEACH (TALB): $31k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 53 repeat orgs$961k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
62

Total granted

$2.7M
$944k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+2%

Still filing today

72%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AS
    ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $285k · revenue +5% · 31% of their budget
  • EG
    ELK GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $103k · revenue +5%
  • CT
    CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF LONG BEACH
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +14%
  • CV
    CHULA VISTA EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $31k · revenue +20%
  • MT
    Montebello Teachers Association
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Teachers Association-Smeta San Mateo Elementary Teachers Assoc

Labor union.

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2
California Teachers Association

A. To represent its members in their relations with their employer, and to seek to be the exclusive representative of appropriate units of school employees in all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations…

Employment
3
California Teachers Association-Ssfcta South San Francisco Classroom Teachers

Labor union

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4
California Teachers Association

The representation of members & promote fair labor relations between members and the school district.

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5
California Retired Teachers As

To support public education and promote the professional interest of public school educators, and protect interest in retirement benefits.

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6
California Teachers Association College of the Canyons Faculty Assoc

Representation of faculty in contract negotiations with the College of the Canyons.

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7
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
8
Fairfield-Suisun Unified Teachers Association

Provide employment related beneftis for members.

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9
California Teachers Association

The representation of teachers.

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10
The California Teachers Empowerment Network

Information to teachers of Union Activities

Education
11
Connecticut Education Association

The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.

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12
Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Teachers Association and the most unlike its peers is Piner-Olivet Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%8%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr11%82%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr11%84%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
8%
9/114
the rest of the field
14%
21,292/147,444

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $285,324 · OtherANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION+111 more — $3,257,593 · Other+111 moreTEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF LONG BEACH — $31,415 · EmploymentBEAUMONT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $31,201 · EmploymentVista Teachers Association — $30,000 · EmploymentHACIENDA LA PUENTE TEACHERS ASSOC — $5,000 · Employment
Other$3,542,917Employment$97,616

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANAHEIM SECONDARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $285,324 over 6y, 31% of budgetELK GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $103,475 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $99,998 over 5y, 12% of budgetFontana Teachers Association — $98,258 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetGARDEN GROVE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $94,718 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetUnited Educators of San Francisco — $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFullerton Elementary Teachers Association — $72,511 over 4y, 14% of budgetSan Bernardino Teachers Assoc — $67,734 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION UA OF CONEJO TEACHERS — $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOVINA UNIFIED EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHayward Education Association — $58,250 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPERRIS ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $55,993 over 2y, 20% of budgetINGLEWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetSan Diego Education Association — $48,260 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Maria Elementary Education Assoc — $45,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION TEMECULA VALLEY EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMORENO VALLEY EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSWEETWATER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPANAMA-BUENA VISTA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetREDLANDS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetIRVINE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCalifornia Teachers Association-SMUHSDTA San Mateo Union HS District Teachers Ass — $40,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetUnited Teachers of Richmond — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFremont Unified District Teachers Associ — $39,861 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCalifornia Teachers Association Corona-Norco Teachers Association — $38,966 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGLENDALE TEACHERS ASSOC INC — $36,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCalifornia Teachers Association Hemet Teachers Association — $34,530 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetEAST SIDE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $32,600 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF LONG BEACH — $31,415 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBEAUMONT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $31,201 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSACRAMENTO CITY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $31,138 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCHULA VISTA EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION — $30,622 over 1y, 11% of budgetVista Teachers Association — $30,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHAPTER — $25,936 over 2y, 36% of budgetNAPA VALLEY EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION — $25,926 over 2y, 15% of budgetMontebello Teachers Association — $24,893 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOCEANSIDE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,455 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCalifornia Faculty Association (SEIU LOCAL 1983) — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED POMONA TEACHERS — $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLAKE ELSINORE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetALVORD EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMERCED UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetCAPISTRANO UNIFIED EDUCATION ASSN — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetONTARIO MONTCLAIR TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOORPARK EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetDESERT SANDS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $19,977 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS OF SANTA CLARA — $19,937 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVENTURA UNIFIED EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $19,347 over 1y, 14% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

National Education As…
National Education Association of the United StatesDC37.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $877k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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