Kentucky · Nonprofit
TEACH KENTUCKY INC
TEACH KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,315,090 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($1,075,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $878k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $979k
What Teach Kentucky Inc does
Mission
For 23 years, teach kentucky has recruited college graduates possessing strong academic credentials and subject content knowledge to launch their education careers in the louisville, ky region. New recruits begin a masters of arts in teaching at a local university while earning a full-time salary in the classroom as a teacher of record. Many of our teachers work in high poverty schools, where the need for talented educations is the greatest. Teach kentucky is not only committed to recruiting bright young minds to the education profession, but to retaining them in it. Its program provides additional professional development of first and second year teachers, and a mentoring program run by retired educators and administrators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teach kentucky recruits individuals to launch their education careers in louisville, kentucky. It leverages financial incentives acquired through its strategic fundraising efforts to attract recent college graduates from across the nation. Participants serve in kentucky public schools and earn an alternative route masters degree while teaching full-time. Since its inception, teach kentucky has recruited 616 individuals representing over 180 colleges and universities. Seventy-three percent (73%) of these individuals are from outside the state of kentucky. 395 of these individuals remain in the education profession either in kentucky or elsewhere. Of the 289 educators currently residing and working in kentucky, 70 percent (70%) of them work in high-poverty, low performing schools.
$539,049 spentof which $128,411 as grants95% of program spendingTeach kentucky provides a six-week teacher preparation program that complements graduate school courses in order to better equip its new recruits for the classroom and increase retention of its recruits in the profession long-term. This program is run by veteran educators who are alumni of the teach kentucky program. This structure aids in the formation of cross-generational relationships between program participants new and old, promoting knowledge-sharing, ongoing collaboration, and a strong foundation of support. Additionally, teach kentucky partners with local middle and high schools to provide realistic instructional classroom experiences with students prior to the first day of school. Veteran teachers observe new recruits and provide them with constructive feedback and modeling.
$26,094 spent5% of program spendingTeach kentucky creates a tight-knit community of ongoing support to its recruits as they adjust to their new careers and new lives in louisville. In surveys administered to our educators, this aspect of the program positively differentiates teach kentucky the most from other teacher recruitment options. Teach kentucky considers these networks and support to be a crucial contributing factor to its seventy percent (70%) retention rate of individuals who begin their third years as teachers recruited through the program.
$4,769 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $569,912.
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 2022 to 2023, from $467k to $1.0M (+123%).
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 0% · 2018 7% · 2019 11% · 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% · 2024 24% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TEACH KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Bryan Warren
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $96k → $490k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 TEACH KENTUCKY INC’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
TEACH KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 TEACH KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 33% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 61% · 2022 27% · 2023 77% — 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
47% of TEACH KENTUCKY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
90% of TEACH KENTUCKY INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $513k 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
TEACH KENTUCKY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TEACH KENTUCKY INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEACH KENTUCKY INC: 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 TEACH KENTUCKY INC?
- TEACH KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,315,090 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($1,075,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEACH KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,315,090 in grants to TEACH KENTUCKY INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEACH KENTUCKY INC?
- JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEACH KENTUCKY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 24 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