Arizona · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,866,525 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,000,536). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $58M
What National Institute for Excellence in Teaching does
Mission
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Niet pursues improving educator effectiveness and the national k-12 education system through designing and implementing effective, cohesive professional learning systems. We categorize our work into five service areas:the tap system for teacher and student advancement:the tap system remains niet's comprehensive approach to establishing sustained structures for building educator excellence and increasing student achievement growth. Since its introduction in 1999, the tap system has led to dramatically improved outcomes for students and changed the trajectory of entire schools and communities. Over 95 percent of participating tap schools (see schedule o for continuations) are high-need and serve diverse areas - from phoenix to rural tennessee. Through the implementation of four interrelated key elements (mentioned above), teachers are improving their instruction and the achievement of their students. School improvement solutions:the school improvement solutions model is rooted in proven principles from the tap system and aims to create effective structures for teacher leadership and foster an environment for educators and students alike to excel. It starts with a strengths-based…
$22,863,243 spentof which $4,413,263 as grants$24,729,671 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,863,243.
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 2023 to 2024, from $43M to $54M (+24%).
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 76% · 2018 79% · 2019 73% · 2020 55% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 32% · 2024 19% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Dr Joshua H Barnett
CEO
Board chair
Lowell Milken
Chairman (until 12/24)&founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $89k → $225k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING’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 INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $505k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.0M on record.
- Department of Education$19.0M
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 INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: 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 INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,866,525 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,000,536). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $7,866,525 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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