TEECH - Teaching for Equity Empowerment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874280770
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6125849478
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,000
- Expenses
- $157,153
- Assets
- $346,128
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Muhammad Khalifa (President)
- Dana Mortenson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kandace Logan (Executive Dir.): $129,695 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TEECH transforms education by training future educators as community advocates before they ever enter the classrooms.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educator Pathways Program Development and Community Engagement: During the reporting period, the organization advanced the development of a new educator pathways initiative aimed at supporting aspiring educators from diverse backgrounds. A convening event brought together educators and community partners, featuring Dr. Gholnecsar (Goldie) Muhammad as the keynote speaker. This event served as a foundational moment, generating vital feedback from attendees regarding current program needs and informing future planning through structured brainstorming sessions. Based on insights gathered, the organization developed a comprehensive program framework tailored to the unique needs of aspiring educators. A soft pilot of this framework will be launched during the summer of 2025 to test and refine the program model. Pilot Program for College Juniors scheduled for 2025: A new pilot initiative targeting college juniors interested in entering the education field will be launched. Five to six students were identified as potential participants for the initial cohort. The organization began forming strategic partnerships with higher education institutions to explore opportunities for offering accredited coursework as part of the program. These relationships are anticipated to strengthen the program and provide robust educational opportunities for participants.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.9%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.2; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 66.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.