Teach For America

Lobbying client

Teach For America is a national nonprofit, founded in 1989 by Wendy Kopp and headquartered in New York City, that recruits recent college graduates to teach for at least two years in low-income public and charter schools, and has run its New York program since 1990. It has filed 3 lobbying disclosures in 2026, worth $40,000 in compensation, through Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies LLC, registered citywide on a procurement-related matter the filing does not otherwise specify. The nonprofit has held New York City contracts totaling $19.11 million since 2009, with $2.25 million active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
3
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$40,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$2,248,750 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$19,111,000 · 14 since 2009, incl. expired
Paid to date
$12,964,148
Won without a fresh bid
63% of contract value · $12,018,500 · 5 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$20,000 · 1 awards
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$598,385 · Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO & Director

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2024). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed -2% from FY2023 to FY2024. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

Congressional testimony

Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing

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