Tntp
Legal name: Tntp Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133850158
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 7182332800
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,839,373
- Expenses
- $131,005,848
- Assets
- $95,749,455
- Liabilities
- $17,624,004
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TEQUILLA BROWNIE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- CRYSTAL H REICHMAN (PRESIDENT)
- JOMAR MCDONALD (VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY)
Highest reported compensation
- TEQUILLA BROWNIE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $467,912 total reported compensation
- LIN JOHNSON III CHIEF (STRATEGY, GROWTH & FINANCE OFFICER): $406,882 total reported compensation
- CRYSTAL H REICHMAN (PRESIDENT): $405,573 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TNTP partners with schools, districts, and states to redesign education systems so all students graduate with both strong academic foundations and real pathways to opportunity. We work alongside education leaders to strengthen curriculum and instruction, build coherent student experiences, and connect learning to real-world skills, careers, and postsecondary success. By helping systems move beyond access alone and toward true capability, we support educators in delivering learning that prepares young people to thrive—no matter where they start. Helping Students Thrive in School and Beyond A teacher crouches next to a student seated at a desk and writing in a notebook.
What it reported doing in 2024
Research, policy and advocacy: tntp's publications share what we are learning in schools and districts nationwide. As we work alongside teachers and leaders each day, we identify common challenges, seek out trends, craft data driven narratives and share promising solutions. See schedule o for further details on tntp's fiscal year 2025 program service accomplishments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 44th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $110.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $468K · 26 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.3M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 32 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 20 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.