Teachaids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270618533
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Stanford, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6504508756
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,887,561
- Expenses
- $1,895,922
- Assets
- $90,791
- Liabilities
- $2,964
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PIYA SORCAR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
People named in this filing
- PIYA SORCAR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- SHUMAN GHOSEMAJUMDER (BOARD MEMBER)
- DICK GOULD (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TeachAids is an award-winning NGO creating breakthrough technology to solve persistent challenges in global health education. Founded on research from Stanford Univ. the consortium unites world experts from leading institutions like Harvard MIT and UCSF. Using gold-standard research TeachAids develops interactive media and VR experiences that demonstrate unparalleled learning gains shifts in attitude and the highest retention and comfort rates of tested approaches. Partnering with global leaders including UNICEF UNESCO Google Adobe and 25 USOPC National Governing Bodies such as USA Hockey and US Soccer TeachAids life-saving education has been implemented by govts. and NGOs reaching more than 500M people in 82 nations completely free of charge. Visit TeachAids. org.
What it reported doing in 2025
TeachAids uses a research-based methodology to develop medically accurate pedagogically grounded customized interactive software to optimize learning and retention. Following the global success of its HIV education TeachAids developed educational experiences on issues including concussion mental health and COVID-19. Peer-reviewed evaluations consistently demonstrate TeachAids successfully improves reporting intentions reduces stigma and empowers a generation of digital natives with life-saving health education. These programs reached more than 500M youth parents educators and medical experts demonstrating TeachAids unique ability to scale high-impact public health solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.