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Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,155 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS ($138,534). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$276k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$287k
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−104% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve19.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($5.7M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2018 Revenue 96 ($5.2M) Expenses 94 ($5.4M) Net assets 91 ($4.1M)2019 Revenue 94 ($5.1M) Expenses 85 ($4.8M) Net assets 102 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 66 ($3.6M) Expenses 71 ($4.0M) Net assets 89 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 98 ($5.3M) Expenses 66 ($3.8M) Net assets 134 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 84 ($4.6M) Expenses 84 ($4.8M) Net assets 106 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 91 ($5.0M) Expenses 85 ($4.9M) Net assets 109 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 5 ($276k) Expenses 10 ($563k) Net assets 104 ($4.7M)
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Revenue (5)Expenses (10)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
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2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$279k
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$180k
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$262k
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$443k
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$1.6M
21
$224k
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$71k
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$287k
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20
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $148k → $79k.

Funder
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total
funders
2
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2

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 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

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc.

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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.

Where its funders are

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

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DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.

Federal$1.7M
grants $601kcontracts $1.1M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$1.0M
  • Department of State$663k

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 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

51%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 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 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,155 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS ($138,534). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $287,155 in grants to Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc?
CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS is the largest funder on record, with $138,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing