North Carolina · Nonprofit
TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC
TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,063 to it, the largest being Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Teaching Fellows Institute Inc does
Mission
Professional development to assist teachers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Symposium - In the summer of 2025 a 3-day in-person leadership and professional development symposium was held at the Duke Mansion for a new class of TFI Fellows. The leadership workshop was entitled Training for Work and Life, with Terrie Reeves and the professional development workshop was called Using Movement to Create Captivated Learners, with Dr. Linnea Lyding. The participation in this event included 25 Fellows plus 15 Alumni Fellows.
$59,238 spent64% of program spendingAlumni Programming - Throughout the year over 200 teachers participated in at least one TFI engagement event which included evening workshops holiday luncheon school year kick-off reception author talks on K-12 education topics and social events.
$32,794 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,032.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $58k to $150k (+157%).
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.
100% of TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Barbara Evans
Executive Director - As of 5 1 2025
Board chair
Ariana Shahinfar
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE 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
TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
58% of TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE 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 TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC?
- TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,063 to it, the largest being Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $120,063 in grants to TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC?
- Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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