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NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,219,527 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What National Board for Professional Teaching Standards does
Mission
The founding mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by: maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; providing a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and advocating related education reforms to integrate national board certification in american education and to capitalize on the expertise of national board certified teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Standards and assesstment: the national board's work in this area focuses on the development and revision of national board standards, which are created by teachers, for teachers; and the redesign and operation of national board certification, the profession's performance assessment for accomplished teaching. National board certification is similar to board certification in other fields, such as medicine. A rigorous, performance-based, peer review process enables teachers to demonstrate that they meet the profession's highest standards of accomplished practice. As of the 2024-25 fiscal year, the national board celebrated more than 141,000 national board-certified teachers (nbct) across the country. These accomplished educators are advancing student learning and achievement, representing all 50 states and 25 certificate areas, from pre-k through 12th grade.
$18,088,142 spentof which $64,176 as grants$21,898,992 earned by the program55% of program spendingExperience and activiation: the national board undertakes strategic projects to advance innovation and equity to more rapidly bring accomplished teaching to students who need it most. These projects are funded through a mix of federal and foundation sources. The national board has built and maintains partnerships with states, districts, and teacher preparation programs to embed atlas (accomplished teaching, learning and schools), a unique online library of videos showing nbcts at work in their classrooms, paired with their own written commentary on their instruction and students' learning, as a support to teachers across the educator career continuum. The national board also utilizes homeroom - a collection of resources designed to help educators navigate the board certification process from start to submission. The national board academy will convene thousands of educators, providing thought provoking sessions on issues critical to the teaching profession. Participants will develop skills, learn from colleagues, build community and gain insight into national board certification.
$6,434,982 spent$582,631 earned by the program20% of program spendingAdvocacy and communications: the national board engages national board-certified teachers across the country to advance accomplished teaching and to support their leadership role in elevating the profession. Through 2024-25, the national board worked with 75 affiliated nbct networks, comprised of groups of nbcts in regions and states working to advance accomplished teaching in awareness, policy, and practice. Each summer, the national board academy brings these advocates together to share successes and plan for the year ahead. The national board is active in education policy discussions at the federal, state, and local levels. Through these policy efforts, the national board works to engage policy makers in boards of education, state legislatures, congress and nonprofit associations working to promote excellence in teaching and learning.
$5,668,162 spent$800,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingInnovative solution hub
$2,438,137 spent$1,924 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,629,423.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $12M (−27%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 7% · 2020 1% · 2022 5% · 2023 11% · 2024 21% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Travis Bristol
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.0M.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $341k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Education Association of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS’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.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 58% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 57% · 2023 33% — 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
14% of NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.2M on record.
- Department of Education$20.3M
- Department of the Interior$2.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS: 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 NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS?
- NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,219,527 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $11,219,527 in grants to NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS?
- CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 16 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