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CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being Casey and Charley's Foundation for Dogs and Kids ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$332k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$511k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What California Assoc of Teachers of English does

Mission

Charitable and educational

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. IMPROVE AND ASSIST THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND STUDENTS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL GOALS.The CATE Convention was held in Burlingame on Feb 28 - March 2. Attendance was 765. Speakers included Tina Korani, Gerry Brooks, CUE, CAP CUE, Dashka Slater. The theme was Social Context Using Pop Culture and Social Media to Make Content Relevant. We included Educator Meetup to share strategies to help all thrive in what can be challenging environmentsWe developed and adopted resolutions on the following topics. We continue to work on Active Mission Statement Work (Franks Amiesh activity)Discussing and sessions addressed AI in Education.Officers and Local Affiliates attended NCTEs annual convention in Boston in November, we received an award to increase membership and attended required business meetings and get-togethers. We had four board meetings in Sept, Dec, Feb and May. Committee Chairs for 2025-2026: Leadership/Membership Joan Williams; Convention Coordinating Chair Jennifer Silver; Policy/Censorship April Parker; Executive Finance Susan Dillon; Publications/Social Media Carole LeCren.We published 4 issues of California English - due to law…

    $356,218 spent$332,143 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $356,218.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($291k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($260k)2018 Revenue 133 ($386k) Expenses 96 ($306k) Net assets 142 ($370k)2019 Revenue 117 ($342k) Expenses 114 ($364k) Net assets 133 ($347k)2020 Revenue 130 ($380k) Expenses 101 ($321k) Net assets 152 ($396k)2021 Revenue 25 ($73k) Expenses 19 ($60k) Net assets 156 ($405k)2022 Revenue 62 ($181k) Expenses 71 ($226k) Net assets 130 ($337k)2023 Revenue 165 ($482k) Expenses 116 ($371k) Net assets 184 ($478k)2024 Revenue 135 ($395k) Expenses 120 ($381k) Net assets 206 ($535k)2025 Revenue 114 ($332k) Expenses 112 ($356k) Net assets 197 ($511k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (112)Net assets (197)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $337k to $478k (+42%).

$260k
$370k
$347k
$396k
$405k
$337k
$478k
$535k
$511k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’17
$81k
’18
−$22k
’19
$59k
’20
$13k
’21
−$45k
’22
$111k
’23
$13k
’24
−$24k
’25
6.6
months of
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.

2017201820192020202320242025
Listed7656444
Joined·+2+0+2·+0+1
No longer listed·311·01
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH?
CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being Casey and Charley's Foundation for Dogs and Kids ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH?
Casey and Charley's Foundation for Dogs and Kids is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing