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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$7.2MEmployment$2.6MSocial Science$84k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA TRIVIUM ACADEMY$100,000
AMIGOS POR VIDA FRIENDS FOR LIFE HOUSING & EDUCATION CORP DBA PUBLIC CHARTE$100,000
CATALYST VISIONARY EDUCATION DBA VISTIONARY STEM ACADEMY$16,966
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$7,582
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%OHIO EXCELS: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
NY
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NM
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
41

Total granted

$1.7M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-4%

Still filing today

70%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentScience & TechEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    TNTP INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $954k · revenue +63%
  • CS
    Colorado Succeeds
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +60%
  • VT
    VILLAGE TECH SCHOOLS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • E
    EDBUILD
    one grant, 2024 · $1.7M · revenue -69% · 50% of their budget
  • P
    PROMISE54
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -90%
  • CH
    CLIMB HIRE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -26% · 55% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
3
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
4
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
5
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
8
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
10
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
11
Out Teach

Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…

Education
12
Editorial Projects in Education Inc

Editorial projects in education, inc. (epe) was established to raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in american education through a variety of targeted products and media.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is Edbuild. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
19/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROMISE54: $1,484,171 · EducationPROMISE54TNTP INC: $953,686 · EducationTNTP INCTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $400,000 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDExcellent Schools New Mexico: $346,645 · EducationExcellent Schools New MexicoColorado Succeeds: $200,000 · Education+31 more: $2,054,000 · Education+31 moreEDBUILD: $1,676,921 · Science & TechEDBUILDCLIMB HIRE INC: $1,112,897 · EmploymentCLIMB HIRE I…4MATIV TECHNOLOGIES INC: $450,000 · Other4MATIV TECH…LONGVIEW ISD: $135,000 · OtherLONGVIEW IS…TULOSO-MIDWAY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $135,000 · OtherTULOSO-MIDW…ODYSSEY: $100,000 · OtherODYSSEYMERIDIAN WORLD SCHOOL LLC: $100,000 · OtherMERIDIAN WO…PEOPLE FOR PSEO: $50,000 · Other+3 more: $49,548 · OtherEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Human ServicesOHIO EXCELS: $15,000 · Human ServicesTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $66,667 · Social ScienceINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL INITIATIVE: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$5,438,502Science & Tech$1,676,921Employment$1,112,897Other$1,019,548Human Services$415,000Youth Development$115,000Social Science$66,667Philanthropy$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDBUILD: $1,676,921 over 1y, 50% of budgetPROMISE54: $1,484,171 over 1y, 20% of budgetCLIMB HIRE INC: $1,112,897 over 1y, 55% of budgetTNTP INC: $953,686 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $400,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetExcellent Schools New Mexico: $346,645 over 1y, 21% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYouthprise: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLUUM INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRESPONSIVEED TEXAS: $135,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE TECH SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPORTICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION dba TRIVIUM ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOdyssey 2020 Academy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATSCHOOLS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAUP: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $66,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGROUNDSWELL NETWORK INC: $24,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas B Fordham Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget50CAN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO EXCELS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGO Public Schools: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Walton Family Foundat…Gates FoundationCharter Fund Inc D/B/…New Schools FundLumina Foundation for…The Bloomberg Family …Strada Education Foun…City FundCarnegie Corporation …The Joyce FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Silicon Valley Commun…
Walton Family Foundation IncAR44.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bellwether Education Partners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bellwether Education Partners Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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