New York · Nonprofit
THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC
THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,443 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE AND JOSEPH ARESTY FOUNDATION INC ($297,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Academy for Teachers Inc does
Mission
The academy for teachers brings together teachers with luminaries, experts, and artists to create a supportive community of inspired educators. Our mission is to honor and support teachers through world-class learning experiences that inspire them to continue changing lives, in the classroom and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Master classes: led by experts from all arenas, our intimate master classes provide teachers with thrilling new ideas, better teaching strategies, and renewed excitement for their work with students. In a master class, intimate groups of teachers learn from a leading expert and from each other, sharing their best lessons, resources, and wisdom across all subject areas.
$330,461 spent$192,717 earned by the program27% of program spendingEarly career fellowship - this year-long fellowship addresses two critical problems in education: keeping new teachers in the classroom and the under-representation of teachers of color across the profession. Those accepted join an intimate cohort for a year of master classes, workshops, and mentoring. They learn alongside each other and join our larger community of passionate, veteran teachers who serve as role models.
$319,138 spent$76,092 earned by the program26% of program spendingFellows events - the academy fosters community and professional growth among teachers by organizing a variety of intellectual, cultural, and recreational events. Through lectures, performances, workshops, book clubs, creative writing groups, a softball team, and a chorus, the program provides opportunities for teachers to connect, collaborate, and engage in meaningful experiences beyond the classroom.
$261,911 spent$21,928 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther programs: prizes/fellowships, chapbooks, show teachers the love for fellows, and other program expenses.
$329,972 spentof which $32,640 as grants$17,752 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,241,482.
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 $1.0M to $1.5M (+39%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $101k → $508k.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. 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
THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 18% — 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
46% of THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
68% of THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k 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
THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS 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 THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC?
- THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,443 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE AND JOSEPH ARESTY FOUNDATION INC ($297,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,754,443 in grants to THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC?
- THE CATHERINE AND JOSEPH ARESTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $297,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS 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.
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 61 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