Massachusetts · Public charity
Bellwether Education Partners Inc
Bellwether is a national nonprofit, founded in 2010, that works to ensure young people, especially those furthest from opportunity, achieve outcomes that lead to fulfilling lives and flourishing communities. Our vision is that all young people have access to an excellent education and live lives filled with opportunity.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Bellwether Education Partners Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $225k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $3.1M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.1M | 71% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.1M | 86% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $358k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $2.6M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $347k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edbuild | $1,676,921 | 1 | 50% |
| Promise54 | $1,484,171 | 1 | 20% |
| Climb Hire Inc | $1,112,897 | 1 | 55% |
| Tntp Inc | $953,686 | 2 | 0% |
| 4mativ Technologies Inc | $450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $400,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $400,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Excellent Schools New Mexico | $346,645 | 1 | 21% |
| Colorado Succeeds | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Youthprise | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 54 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Bellwether Education Partners Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · City Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Joyce Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Bellwether Education Partners Inc
- How much does Bellwether Education Partners Inc give?
- Bellwether Education Partners Inc reported 4 grants totaling $224,548 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bellwether Education Partners Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Employment (26%), Social Science (1%).
- Who are Bellwether Education Partners Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Edbuild ($1.7M), Promise54 ($1.5M), Climb Hire Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Bellwether Education Partners Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bellwether Education Partners Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, Gates Foundation, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund.
- Where is Bellwether Education Partners Inc based?
- Bellwether Education Partners Inc is based in MA.
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