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TEACHERS LIKE ME

EIN 85-1594627 LEES SUMMIT, MO

Revenue 2024
$1,112,742
Expenses 2024
$1,051,801

Program services were 78.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1200
Street
1325 NE BURGANDY LN

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

The mission of Teachers Like Me TLM is to recruit, develop and retain Black teachers. TLM is focused on two groups of people: college of education graduates from partner universities and high school students to receive a bachelor's degree in education. Incentives to recruit the teachers include signing bonuses, relocation fees, affordable housing, and scholarships. TLM is focused on developing a strong instructional pedagogy with a culturally responsive lens. Teachers will be provided additional professional develop by TLM to improve instructional practices. Teachers remaining in their school and/or district will receive a retention bonus each year. It's not enough to just be able to recruit and develop great teachers if we don't invest in filling the needs of those teachers and making sure that we retain them in our schools.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Teachers Like Me aims to increase the number of Black teachers by removing barriers to entry and providing the support needed to be effective and responsive to the academic and social needs of all students, specifically students of color.

  • TEACHER RETENTION - TEACHERS REMAINING IN THEIR SCHOOL AND/OR DISTRICT WILL RECEIVE A RETENTION BONUS EACH YEAR. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST BE ABLE TO RECRUIT AND DEVELOP GREAT TEACHERS IF WE DON'T INVEST IN FILLING THE NEEDS OF THOSE TEACHERS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE RETAIN THEM IN OUR SCHOOLS

    Expenses $429,113 · Revenue $135,323

  • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - TEACHERS LIKE ME IS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING A STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL PEDAGOGY WITH A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LENS. TEACHERS WILL BE PROVIDED ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY TEACHERS LIKE ME TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES.

    Expenses $305,030

  • TEACHER RECRUITMENT - TEACHERS LIKE ME IS FOCUSED ON TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION GRADUATES FROM PARTNER UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO RECEIVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION. INCENTIVES TO RECRUIT THE TEACHERS INCLUDE SIGNING BONUSES, RELOCATION FEES, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Expenses $90,655 · Revenue $225,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • DR TRINITY DAVIS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $103,333
    From this org
    $103,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KOFI LOMOTEY

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DAVID HURFORD

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ADRIANNE TAYLOR

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • STEPHEN WILLIAMS

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BOBBI SHUJAA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • PAMELA WEBB

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JOE KEAL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $1,112,742
    Expenses
    $1,051,801
    Contributions
    $752,414
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,285,911
    Expenses
    $996,016
    Contributions
    $1,245,052
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $882,395
    Expenses
    $682,595
    Contributions
    $879,807
    Grants paid
    $33,263

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $346,580
    Expenses
    $329,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,120

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $126,220
    Expenses
    $63,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,422

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.

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.