Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
TEACHING LAB
TEACHING LAB (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,740,974 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Teaching Lab does
Mission
Teaching Lab (the organization) is a national education nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning. Founded in the district of columbia in 2016, Teaching Lab specializes in curriculum-based professional learning and job-embedded coaching for educators at all levels of school systems. Its teacher-centered model is grounded in using high-quality instructional materials, the latest in tech solutions and innovations, and the best research on what works for students. In partnership with teachers, Teaching Lab transforms professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes.Teaching Lab also works with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. Teaching Lab believes in the power of great teaching to inspire students at all levels to learn and grow. Teaching Lab helps teachers thrive so that students can.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Teaching Lab scales high-quality and curriculum-based professional learning and coaching to schools, districts, and state education agencies. Teaching Lab's core model is described as core academic content ("head"); teacher-led communities of learning ("heart") and cycles of inquiry ("habits"). Teaching Lab integrates curriculum-based professional learning and side-by-side teacher and leadership coaching to build the capacity of educators to improve instruction. In 2016, tl had one state partnership and limited district partnerships. In fy25, we reached over 10,000 educators and over 1,000,000 students across 140 school systems.
$19,745,112 spent$11,543,104 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,745,112.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $16M (+239%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of TEACHING LAB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Johnson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Bryan Richardson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $200k → $6.4M.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LAB’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 LAB has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 LAB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 49% · 2021 43% · 2022 65% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of TEACHING LAB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
TEACHING LAB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 LAB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TEACHING LAB receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- MA$2.6M
- DE$320k
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 TEACHING LAB
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Teaching Lab Ventures Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEACHING LAB: 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 LAB?
- TEACHING LAB (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,740,974 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEACHING LAB have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $40,740,974 in grants to TEACHING LAB, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEACHING LAB?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEACHING LAB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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