Kansas · Nonprofit
National Network of State Teachers of the Year
National Network of State Teachers of the Year (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,135,330 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($654,446). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $563k
What National Network of State Teachers of the Year does
Mission
National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) envisions a transformed teaching profession that provides access to great teaching and learning for all students, thereby dramatically improving student outcomes for college, career, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Empowering Educator Fellowship engages State Teachers of the Year and Finalists passionate about teaching truth in classrooms across New England. The Fellows work to preserve access, inclusion, and meaningful content so that every student has an opportunity to succeed and thrive.
$199,805 spent33% of program spendingThe NNSTOY Social-Emotional Learning Program was developed by NNSTOY members to support outstanding teachers as they build skills for teaching social and emotional competencies by strengthening their current instruction and developing new lessons. Fellows work in a virtual professional community with experienced SEL practitioners, including State Teachers of the Year and Finalists. The curriculum is a multi-part professional development course designed around the habits of social-emotional learning and includes teacher-led training, focus on relationships, and the SEAD Program (Social Emotional Academic Development).
$163,554 spent27% of program spendingProfessional Development Partnerships - State Teachers of the Year and Finalists have the subject matter expertise, near-peer connection to teachers, and leadership to lead action-driven professional development for schools, districts, and nonprofits, empowering teachers and positively impacting student achievement.
$142,976 spent23% of program spendingThe National STEM Fellowship continues to advance the educational, social, and economic impact of STEM education through the teaching profession. This year, the Fellowship put State Teachers of the Year and Finalists in a unique position to educate policymakers with their subject matter expertise and practice and policy perspectives. Through a national virtual STEM convening, national conferences, EdWeek press coverage, and promotion by national organizations, the STEM Career Engagement Guides are reaching new heights while continuing to provide support to all grade-level teachers to encourage students to pursue STEM education-to-career pathways.
$107,250 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $613,585.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $285k to $929k (+226%).
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.
95% of National Network of State Teachers of the Year’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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 LouAnn Ross
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr Natasha Murray
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $368k → $313k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $722k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education). These are real filings, and they are not money National Network of State Teachers of the Year raised.
From the IRS filings of National Network of State Teachers of the Year’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 Network of State Teachers of the Year leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Network of State Teachers of the Year.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2019 84% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 78% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of National Network of State Teachers of the Year's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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 Network of State Teachers of the Year draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $845k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Network of State Teachers of the Year runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding National Network of State Teachers of the Year receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $566k on record.
- Department of Defense$566k
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 Network of State Teachers of the Year
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds National Network of State Teachers of the Year?
- National Network of State Teachers of the Year (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,135,330 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($654,446). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Network of State Teachers of the Year have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,135,330 in grants to National Network of State Teachers of the Year, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Network of State Teachers of the Year?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $654,446 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Network of State Teachers of the Year find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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