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TEACHERS OF ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES INC

EIN 23-7003530 ALEXANDRIA, VA

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Revenue 2024
$276,098
Expenses 2024
$563,399

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B63C
Classification
1200
Street
1925 BALLENGER AVE STE 550

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TESOL International Association advances professional expertise in English language teaching to speakers of other languages in multilingual contexts worldwide through professional learning, research, standards, and advocacy.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To ensure excellence in English language teaching to speakers of other languages.

  • Strategic events - during fiscal year 2024, TESOL hosted its TESOL International Convention Expo, bringing together more than 3300 ELT professionals from across the globe to exchange their knowledge, best practices, and research in Tampa, FL. The in-person convention featured three keynotes, over 600 educational sessions, and several special events. Proposals are peer-reviewed. Following the in-person convention, an additional 2000 ELT professionals joined the online convention. This means, over 5,000 TESOLers came together last March and April to share ELT experiences. TESOL also hosted an additional virtual conference in October 2024 : ELevate. This 2-day worldwide event strengthened the field and elevated the knowledge and expertise of ELT professionals in the primary and secondary school context. As part of its commitment to DEIA, TESOL successfully included a significant number of underrepresented teachers and other TESOL professionals from around the world in this event.

    Expenses $160,369 · Revenue $9,260

  • Marketing and member services - for more than 55 years, TESOL has been providing a community to educators, researchers, administrators, and students in the ELT field. With more than 6,000 members representing over 170 countries, and more than 100 worldwide affiliates, TESOL offers members the opportunity to be part of a dynamic professional community and join in TESOL's mission to advance excellence in English language teaching.

    Expenses $110,303 · Revenue $121,218

  • Professional learning - TESOL provides year-round continuing education programs to TESOL members and other professionals throughout the world to develop leadership skills, improve core competencies, and stay abreast of the latest developments in the dynamic field of English language teaching and learning. Self-paced and facilitated courses are available. Popular courses include the fundamentals of TESOL, schoolwide English learning (SWEL), separating difference from disability, social emotional learning (SEL), training for trainers (TFT), the 6ps of exemplary English language teaching (6ps), and supporting English learners with exceptional needs. We also brought the TESOL core certificate training program (TCCP) to hundreds of ELT professionals around the world thru grants, programs, and partnerships.

    Expenses $97,620 · Revenue $21,612

  • Book publications - TESOL produces and disseminates serial publications and books that are designed to advance the expertise of English language teaching professionals. TESOL press offers over 100 titles, for educators teaching English as a second or foreign language. In addition, TESOL has 5 zip-guides and 4 6ps quick guides. These shorter, laminated files are designed to share easily digestible information on a slew of ELT topics. TESOL's latest best sellers are our no-prep activity cards. Each deck has 100 easy-to-create activities that give teachers classroom tasks addressing literacy and oracy skills, as well as assessment and AI experiences.Journals - TESOL produces and disseminates serial journals, blogs, and newsletters that are designed to advance the expertise of English language teaching professionals. TESOL publishes two refereed publications (TESOL quarterly and TESOL journal), along with a monthly newsletter, TESOL connections, for all English language professionals, in addition to various other newsletters for specific needs and interests.

    Expenses $64,504 · Revenue $11,306

  • Advocacy, standards, and professional relations - TESOL speaks up on behalf of and supports excellence in the EL field through advocating for funding and support of EL educators and their students with elected officials, setting standards of excellence, and offering research based professional development. This work is conducted directly by TESOL and in conjunction with partner organizations, affiliated associations, and a variety of coalitions and groups covering the gamut of language education.

    Expenses $23,328

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Debra Suarez

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Justin Shewell

    President - Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Shelley Taylor

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Araceli Salas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cynthia Wiseman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elisabeth Chan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kate Mastruserio Reynolds

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kisha Bryan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Larisa Olesova

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Misty Adoniou

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Raichle Farrelly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rosa Aronson

    Interim Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $129,118
    From this org
    $129,118
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Juliet Mason

    Head of Operations

    Total calculated
    $143,790
    From this org
    $129,063
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,727
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sarah Sarh

    Head of E2

    Total calculated
    $142,696
    From this org
    $123,872
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,824
    Hours/week
    40
  • Heidi Faust

    Director of Professional Learning

    Total calculated
    $127,310
    From this org
    $115,702
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,608
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $276,098
    Expenses
    $563,399
    Contributions
    $12,436
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,956,208
    Expenses
    $4,885,654
    Contributions
    $1,096,860
    Grants paid
    $23,028

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,591,252
    Expenses
    $4,815,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,284,639
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,349,169
    Expenses
    $3,758,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,490,655
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,604,565
    Expenses
    $4,047,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,352,488
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,108,703
    Expenses
    $4,846,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,101,418
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,214,272
    Expenses
    $5,394,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,320,339
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,443,153
    Expenses
    $5,722,589
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,898,345

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.