Nonprofit · EIN 13-3541913
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC
Also known as TFA INC
Tax-exempt · NEW YORK, NY 10004
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2025 | 990 | $265,237,413 | $253,870,404 | $11,367,009 | $596,287,079 | $65,065,157 | $531,221,922 |
| May 31, 2024 | 990 | $221,427,136 | $245,374,006 | -$23,946,870 | $558,167,241 | $78,202,335 | $479,964,906 |
| May 31, 2023 | 990 | $275,572,075 | $298,156,461 | -$22,584,386 | $527,184,582 | $103,548,290 | $423,636,292 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended May 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $237,764,501
- of which government grants
- $49,124,803
- Program service revenue
- $19,707,532
- Investment income
- $8,525,196
- Royalties
- $901
- Net gain from sales of assets
- -$52,821
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$948,652
- Other revenue
- -$759,816
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $35,013,608
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $2,342,026
- Other salaries and wages
- $132,082,223
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $168,748,719
- Professional fundraising fees
- $97,000
- Legal fees
- $243,682
- Accounting fees
- $172,741
- Occupancy
- $8,699,177
- Travel
- $7,478,922
- Depreciation
- $5,455,145
- Program services (functional)
- $192,283,296
- Management and general (functional)
- $30,332,680
- Fundraising (functional)
- $31,254,428
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $558,167,241
- Total assets, end of year
- $596,287,079
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $65,065,157
- Net assets, end of year
- $531,221,922
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $15,286,357
- Publicly traded securities
- $441,212,423
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $201,635,626
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $329,586,296
- Gross unrelated business income
- $71,591
- Gross receipts
- $298,835,829
- Employees
- 2,193
- Volunteers
- 72,000
- Year formed
- 1989
- State of legal domicile
- CT
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended May 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa Villanueva Beard | CEO & Director Trustee or director, Officer | 52 | $552,478 | $45,907 |
| Jemina Bernard | President & Chief Operating Officer Key employee | 52 | $482,774 | $46,166 |
| Joy Okoro | EVP, Field Impact & Integration Key employee | 59 | $432,195 | $29,670 |
| Tracy-Elizabeth Clay | EVP, People & Administration Highest-paid employee | 52 | $405,293 | $43,403 |
| Whitney Petersmeyer | EVP, Growth Key employee | 55 | $399,470 | $45,907 |
| Stephen Majors | EVP, Chief External Affairs Officer Highest-paid employee | 47 | $346,454 | $36,365 |
| Alan Murray | EVP, Chief Digital & Technology Officer Highest-paid employee | 43 | $336,147 | $37,870 |
| Barbara Logan Smith | Chief of Experience & Belonging Highest-paid employee | 59 | $324,568 | $40,746 |
| Tia Morris | Executive Director Highest-paid employee | 56 | $335,113 | $27,218 |
| Ashanta Evans Blackwell | SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Officer | 53 | $270,070 | $46,186 |
| Aneesh Sohoni | CEO & Director ( Beginning 4/15/2025) Trustee or director, Officer | 62 | $0 | $0 |
| Christy Burton | Director (Vice Chair) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| David Kenny | Director (Chair) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Chanelle Hardy | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dan Carroll | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
13 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Porterfield | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| DeRay Mckesson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Michael Lomax | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Hannah Cocca | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Howard Wolfson | Director ( through 9/24/2024) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Kaya Henderson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Ken Mehlman | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Kevin Huffman | Director ( Treasurer) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lindy Schumacher | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Linnea Conrad Roberts | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Miguel Solis | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Steve Mandel | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| William Haslam | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended May 31, 2024: 31 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa Villanueva Beard | DIRECTOR/OFFICER-CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 56 | $497,753 | $47,014 |
| Jemina Bernard | President & Chief Operating Officer Key employee | 55 | $447,353 | $48,514 |
| Tracy-Elizabeth Clay | EVP, People & Administration ( Corporate Secretary through 5/7/2024) Officer | 56 | $341,935 | $43,257 |
| Stephen Majors | EVP, Chief External Affairs Officer Highest-paid employee | 45 | $340,266 | $32,091 |
| Whitney Petersmeyer | EVP, Growth Key employee | 55 | $323,127 | $41,193 |
| alan Murray | EVP, Chief Digital & Technology Officer Highest-paid employee | 45 | $337,300 | $84 |
| Tia Morris | Executive Director Highest-paid employee | 50 | $301,210 | $24,162 |
| Michelle Culver | SVP, Founder Reinvention Lab Highest-paid employee | 41 | $284,616 | $40,116 |
| Joy Okoro | EVP, Field Impact & Integration Key employee | 58 | $295,076 | $23,463 |
| Briana Foley | VP, Strategy & Analytics Actions ( Terminated 5/26/2023 ) Highest-paid employee | 0 | $291,818 | $23,816 |
| Ashanta Evans Blackwell | SVP, General Counsel & ( Corporate Secretary 5/8/2024) Officer | 55 | $241,373 | $47,569 |
| Joshua Griggs | Former EVP, TALENT, OPERATIONS AND CFO Former | 0 | $237,129 | $39,420 |
| David Kenny | Director (Chair) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kevin Huffman | Director ( Treasurer 9/20/2024 ) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Miguel Solis | Director - Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Chanelle Hardy | Director ( start date 2/6/2024 ) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Christy Burton | Director ( start date 2/6/2024 ) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dan Carroll | Director ( start date 2/6/2024 ) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dan Porterfield | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| DeRay Mckesson | Director ( start date 2/6/2024 ) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Hannah Cocca | Director ( start date 2/6/2024 ) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Howard Wolfson | Director ( start date 2/6/2024) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kaya Henderson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Ken Mehlman | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lindy Schumacher | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Linnea Conrad Roberts | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Lomax | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Olivia Walton | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Mandel | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Susan McCaw | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| William Haslam | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended May 31, 2023: 24 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa Villanueva Beard | DIRECTOR/OFFICER-CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 60 | $498,957 | $43,466 |
| Jemina Bernard | President & Chief Operating Officer Key employee | 60 | $374,307 | $44,216 |
| Joshua Griggs | EVP, Talent, Operations and CFO (Terminated 2/19/2023)) Officer | 45 | $359,791 | $36,587 |
| Adam Stanley | EVP, Chief Experience Officer ( Terminated 2/3/2023) Highest-paid employee | 42 | $360,974 | $18,149 |
| Laura Saldivar Luna | SVP, Chief People Officer ( Terminated 8/19/2022) Highest-paid employee | 44 | $331,472 | $27,174 |
| Stephen Majors | EVP, Chief External Affairs Officer Highest-paid employee | 50 | $313,618 | $19,124 |
| Tracy-Elizabeth Clay | SVP, Interim Chief People Officer, Secretary Officer | 56 | $285,856 | $41,150 |
| Amar Patel | Executive Director ( Terminated 11/28/2022) Highest-paid employee | 53 | $292,001 | $31,859 |
| Susan Asiyanbi | EVP, Chief Transformation Officer ( Terminated 2/11/2022 ) Highest-paid employee | 29 | $295,997 | $18,785 |
| David Kenny | Director (Chair) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Susan McCaw | Treasurer ( through 9/19/2024) Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Dan Porterfield | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Yuan | Director ( Terminated 7/22/2022) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kaya Henderson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Ken Mehlman | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kevin Huffman | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lindy Schumacher | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Linnea Conrad Roberts | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Michael Lomax | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Miguel Solis | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Olivia Walton | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Pamela Carter | Director ( Terminated 1/5/2023) Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Steve Mandel | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| William Haslam | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 25 BROADWAY 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10004-1056
- In care of
- % WENDY S KOPP
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Aneesh Sohoni, 25 Broadway 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004
- Signed the 990
- Jeffrey Gunther, SVP, Finance
- Phone
- (212) 279-2080
- Website
- www.teachforamerica.org
- Return prepared by
- CROWE LLP
Mission
Children growing up in historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities lack access to a broad spectrum of resources and opportunities, and attend schools that are not equipped to meet their needs. To address this, TFA's mission is to find, develop and support exceptional leaders to teach the nation's most underserved students. TFA does this by finding promising leaders; developing and cultivating the leadership skills and mindsets necessary for systems change through classroom teaching; engaging the individual and collective impact of those in the TFA network throughout their lifetime; and growing the organization by learning new capabilities to enable a path for transformative change.
Program accomplishments
- Corps Members - TFA recruits, selects, trains and develops exceptional leaders to teach the nation's most underserved students. The organization hosts on and off campus recruitment events, networks and cultivates relationships with prospects and communities in order to recruit exceptional leaders. The organization then processes applications and conducts interviews to select corps members, placing them in various urban and rural regions throughout the United States. Corps members are supported financially, and engage in intensive virtual, hybrid, and in-person training where they have the opportunity to understand their role and work, build community with one another, learn practical skills, and apply their learning in preparation for their first day of school. Corps members are then supported throughout a two-year classroom experience with additional coaching and instructional supports as well as leadership and/or educator professional development.Expenses $124,221,308 · grants $22,031,934 · revenue $19,823,876
- Systems Change - TFA recognizes that significant progress in education can only be achieved with extraordinary actions and partnerships within the communities in which we work. Creating system change is about researching new opportunities - working alongside a coalition of alumni, students, and community leaders and partners to identify patterns and strategies that can lead to system impact and achieve our goals. Investing in work that allows learning of new capabilities and experimentation with innovative practices to bring forth a reinvention of the existing school models.Expenses $30,471,180 · grants $4,076,312
- Alumni - TFA has an alumni base of former corps members all over the world. This network is instrumental in driving real change and impact in education. TFA engages in activities that support and encourage alumni to continue work in education and across sectors by connecting them with various career and partnership opportunities, as well as resources, programs, and events. TFA also supports alumni via activities intended to develop alumni in leadership practice and/or specific programmatic areas: classroom practice, school leadership, school systems leadership, policy/organizing work, and social entrepreneurship.Expenses $24,599,328 · grants $4,740,950
- Ignite Fellowship - Ignite fellows are a national tutoring corps designed to accelerate learning and foster belonging with students, leveraging research-based best practices for high-impact tutoring. Ignite builds on Teach For America's over 35 years of experience recruiting, developing, and supporting talent and partnering with communities across the country to help students overcome the systemic barriers to an excellent education. The Ignite Fellowship brings exceptional, equity-minded leaders into classrooms virtually to add immediate value for students, while creating shifts towards the future of equitable learning.Expenses $12,991,480 · grants $4,164,412
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in May, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | May 31, 2026 | October 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | May 31, 2025 | October 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | May 31, 2024 | October 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 13-3541913
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1993
- Accounting year ends
- May
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Education (B400)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $596,287,079
- Income (IRS master file)
- $298,835,829
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | May 2025 | $265,237,413 | $253,870,404 | $596,287,079 | XML |
| 990-T | May 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2024 | $221,427,136 | $245,374,006 | $558,167,241 | XML |
| 990-T | May 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2023 | $275,572,075 | $298,156,461 | $527,184,582 | XML |
| 990-T | May 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2022 | $220,748,251 | $269,736,155 | $498,661,213 | IRS |
| 990-T | May 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | May 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | May 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 13-3541913).
Questions about TEACH FOR AMERICA INC
- What is the EIN of TEACH FOR AMERICA INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of TEACH FOR AMERICA INC is 13-3541913.
- Is TEACH FOR AMERICA INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1993.
- Are donations to TEACH FOR AMERICA INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does TEACH FOR AMERICA INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of TEACH FOR AMERICA INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending May 31, 2026) is due October 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did TEACH FOR AMERICA INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended May 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of TEACH FOR AMERICA INC?
- The 990 for the year ended May 31, 2025 names Aneesh Sohoni.
- Who are the officers and directors of TEACH FOR AMERICA INC?
- The 990 for the year ended May 31, 2025 lists 28 people; 10 received compensation from the organization, the highest $552,478 (Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO & Director).
- How much revenue does TEACH FOR AMERICA INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended May 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $265,237,413, expenses of $253,870,404 and total assets of $596,287,079 at year end.
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