Talking Teaching Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452624520
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Playa Del Rey, CA, USA
Phone
3105297088
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$41,504
Expenses
$107,458
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • David Marcelletti (Co-Chairman)
  • William Saunders (Co-Chairman)
  • Tom Johnstone (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve student learning by helping educators advance their professional knowledge and expertise through substantive study, collaboration, and reserach and development.

What it reported doing in 2021

Over the course of the 2019-20 school year, the Talking Teaching Foundation (TTF) provided services to four southern California school districts comprised of 85 schools. Built on the work of previous years, over 400 teachers-leaders were trained and subsequently led training for all teachers in the districts. This training included teaching methoes and approaches that meet the challenge of the new Common Core standards for English Language Arts, Mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards. During prior years, the TTF has worked with teacher-leaders from all four districts in order to, among other things,: 1) support implementation of newly adopted math curricula, 2) review, select, and purchase commercial curriculum for English Langauge Arts, and 3) analyze in-depth program service accomplishments: The results of the CAASPP assessments to ensure student progress toward meeting the goals of the new standards in all areas.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 4
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -158.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.