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TEACHERS UNITE INC

TEACHERS UNITE INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,649 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($405,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$230k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$799k
Net assets
$30k
8/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Teachers Unite Inc does

Mission

Teachers unite is an independent organization of new york city public school educators organizing for racial and economic justice. Together with students and families, we build power at and across our schools to grow restorative justice, end criminalization, and transform public education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. School site organizing - build community power in your school and make real changes. In our cohorts, school teams develop organizing plans and get the support to carry them out.dignity in schools campaign - organize with parents and youth to demand an increased investment in restorative justice and mental health supports for students. Teachers unite is on the steering committee of dsc-ny, a youth-led coalition.rank & file power - work with educators and allies to use the weight of the united federation of teachers (uft) to fight institutional racism and economic injustice.

    $204,295 spent$3,324 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,295.

02The 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 ($163k) Expenses 100 ($207k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2018 Revenue 146 ($237k) Expenses 104 ($216k) Net assets 140 ($75k)2019 Revenue 84 ($137k) Expenses 82 ($169k) Net assets 82 ($44k)2021 Revenue 84 ($137k) Expenses 106 ($220k) Net assets 300 ($161k)2022 Revenue 245 ($399k) Expenses 131 ($272k) Net assets 534 ($287k)2023 Revenue 169 ($275k) Expenses 139 ($287k) Net assets 512 ($275k)2024 Revenue 102 ($165k) Expenses 159 ($330k) Net assets 207 ($111k)2025 Revenue 141 ($230k) Expenses 150 ($311k) Net assets 56 ($30k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (150)Net assets (56)Peer revenue range

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 $323k to $124k (−62%).

$54k
$137k
$107k
$161k
$287k
$323k
$124k
$47k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of TEACHERS UNITE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$44k
’17
$21k
’18
−$31k
’19
−$83k
’21
$127k
’22
−$12k
’23
−$164k
’24
−$81k
’25
1.8
months of
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

Nicole Riley

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201720182022202320242025
Listed871012138
Joined·+5·+7+7+0
No longer listed·6·565
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $120k → $120k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 UNITE 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 UNITE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 UNITE INC.

51%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 33% · 2021 72% · 2022 29% · 2023 83% — 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.

How long its funders stay

22% of TEACHERS UNITE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

67% of TEACHERS UNITE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $263k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.

MN
IL
NY
MA
KY
DE
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TEACHERS UNITE INC's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 22%Fundraising 12%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEACHERS UNITE INC?
TEACHERS UNITE INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,649 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($405,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TEACHERS UNITE INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $798,649 in grants to TEACHERS UNITE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEACHERS UNITE INC?
NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEACHERS UNITE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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