Minnesota · Nonprofit
Black Men Teach
Black Men Teach (Minnesota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,078,876 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($830,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Black Men Teach does
Mission
Black Men Teach (BMT) recruits, prepares, places, and retains Black male teachers in elementary schools by building a robust pathway to the teaching profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TEACHERS - Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP), Instructional Coaching and Alternative Certification. Most teachers graduate school with student loan debt, and Black men have significantly more debt than their white counterparts. This burden often leads men to leave the profession. SLRP pays off the principal amount of student debt held by practicing teachers over a five-year period. For fiscal 2024 sixteen men were directly supported by this program and approximately 400 elementary school students benefited from them remaining in the classroom. An instructional coach visits each teacher's classroom to critique their teaching methods to improve student learning and participation. Alternative Certification is a program that run for 3 months each summer to prepare a college student for certification as a teacher.
$279,880 spentof which $180,927 as grants23% of program spendingCOLLEGE - Scholarships, Student Teaching Stipends and Internships, Leadership Coaching and Non-traditional Pilot Program for Licensure - In an effort to offset the financial burden their education, Black Men Teach offers up to $20,000 scholarships to its participants. These scholarships are provided to men who are active participants in our program and are paid over four years. To qualify, students provide BMT with transcripts, confirming their class status, current course schedules, academic credits and fee statements. BMT offers these as "last dollar" scholarships. In the fiscal 2024, thirteen received scholarships. Student teaching, required to earn a degree and become a licensed teacher, is a significant financial burden for students. Because this activity is full time, for a period of 12 to 16 weeks, it precludes the student from earning outside income from a full or part time job. Therefore, many students leave the teaching track at this late stage because of this burden. BMT assists its teaching candidates by providing a stipend or paying for their internship during this part of their education. In fiscal 2024, twenty student teachers and interns benefited from this program…
$200,622 spentof which $160,392 as grants17% of program spendingHIGH SCHOOL - A summer academy for elementary students is held on Saturday mornings for nine weeks. The first three weeks are training for high school students interested in becoming educators. The following six weeks are actual classroom teaching experiences for these high school students to teach elementary school students lessons. BMT also sponsored a teen summit to provide high school students information on teaching as a career and steps to become a teacher.
$51,849 spentof which $34,448 as grants4% of program spendingThis being the fourth full year of Black Men Teach with an executive director and paid staff, much of our program expense was focused on staff time acquiring partnerships with elementary schools, scholarship programs and teacher training programs, as well as on-campus meetings with potential teacher candidates, teaching high school classes introducing seniors to teaching as a career, and much more. In fiscal 2023, BMT began efforts to build a community coalition. The expense includes staff time that is not allocated to individual programs.
$681,599 spent56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,213,950.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $3.1M (+124%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 12% · 2023 21% · 2024 20% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Black Men Teach’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.5M.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Black Men Teach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Black Men Teach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Black Men Teach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 54% · 2020 22% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of Black Men Teach's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of Black Men Teach's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Black Men Teach runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Black Men Teach
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Men Teach: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Black Men Teach?
- Black Men Teach (Minnesota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,078,876 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($830,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Black Men Teach have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $6,078,876 in grants to Black Men Teach, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Men Teach?
- THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $830,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Men Teach find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 54 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing