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Teach for America Inc

Children growing up in historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities lack access to a broad spectrum of resources and opportunities, and attend schools that are not equipped to meet their needs.

$35M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$36MEducation$6.4MArts & Culture$373kEmployment$189kPhilanthropy$177kYouth Development$9kPublic Benefit$9kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $3,630,292, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,013,608 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,383,316 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
$29,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$596M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center For the Future of Learning$2,000,000
Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation$1,500,000
Teach Plus Incorporated$50,000
The Linocut LLC$29,000
Socol Moran Partners LLC$22,292
Eye Thrive$10,000
Urban Ed Academy Inc$10,000
Nashville Public Education Foundation$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $36.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%leadership for educational equity foundation: $5.8M → 14%Eye Thrive: $10k → 21%LEADERSHIP FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FOUNDATION: $5.0M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $4.8M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $2.0M → 17%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $4.7M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $4.2M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $4.2M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $4.2M → 14%Leadership For Educational Equity Foundation: $1.5M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NV
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 6 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$40M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

33%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LF
    LEE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36M · revenue -5% · 67% of their budget
  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $3.0M
  • CA
    CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FINANCE CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $189k

Funded once

  • PE
    Playlab Education Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $735k
  • DE
    DAKM Enterprises Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • PU
    PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
2
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
3
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
4
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
5
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
6
New Teacher Center

New teacher center (ntc) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving outcomes for all students by accelerating teacher and school leader effectiveness. from preschool through high school, (continued on schedule o)

Education
7
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
8
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
9
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
10
Throughline Learning

Throughline learning partners with communities to imagine and create more equitable, relevant, and effective schools. using research, we convene, coach, and build capacity to improve outcomes and experiences for all students.

Human Services
11
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
12
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc; the most unlike its peers is Knowledgeworks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $36,461,193 · Human ServicesLEE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC+2 more: $110,000 · Human ServicesBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $3,000,000 · OtherBOARD OF R…DAKM Enterprises Inc: $300,000 · OtherDAKM Enter…CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FINANCE CORPORATION: $189,102 · Other+10 more: $465,370 · Other+10 moreCenter for the Future of Learning: $2,000,000 · EducationPlaylab Education Inc: $735,000 · Education+9 more: $234,135 · EducationDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $97,500 · PhilanthropyNEVADA GRANTLAB: $7,391 · Community Improvement
Human Services$36,571,193Other$3,954,472Education$2,969,135Philanthropy$97,500Community Improvement$7,391

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $36,461,193 over 9y, 67% of budgetCenter for the Future of Learning: $2,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPlaylab Education Inc: $735,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSCHOOL LEADER LAB: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $97,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $31,735 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $25,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSCEND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SONG COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKnowledgeworks Foundation: $11,896 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEYE THRIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Ed Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEVADA GRANTLAB: $7,391 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Walton Family Foundat…Gates FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Share Our StrengthRockefeller Philanthr…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Teach for America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teach for America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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