TEACHorg Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 473878444
IRS 990 coverage: 2015–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone: 2026577855
Rating: 78
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $13,511,004
Expenses: $9,784,524
Assets: $12,393,937
Liabilities: $1,047,745

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Highest reported compensation

Zachary Levine (Executive Dir.): $228,593 total reported compensation
Leonard Sitnick (Head of Product): $198,470 total reported compensation
Jennifer Cooper (Sr Direct Content): $156,268 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The charity's mission is to elevate the perception of the teaching profession and help talented people from all backgrounds explore that profession, so we can find and support the next generation of teachers and ensure our nation's students have the teachers they deserve.

What it reported doing in 2024

TEACH exists to solve the nations teacher shortage. As the leading expert in teacher recruitment, TEACH partners with State Departments of Education to deploy its Comprehensive Teacher Recruitment System (CTRS) which recruits new people into the teaching profession. The digital recruiting platform is a collection of integrated technology components, such as a website, email, social media, and CRM database. TEACH also researches, produces, distributes, and monitors a multi-media public service awareness campaign, rebranding the teaching profession.

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model: Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 72
Transparency & Controls: 75
Accountability: 91
Sustainability: 65
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
Fundraising efficiency: $21.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: 27.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.7M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $229K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 7 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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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.

Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.