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Bellwether International

Our mission is to disrupt the cycle of genocide and create genocide-resistant societies. Through rigorous impact evaluation research and a network of experts we have prioritized learning how why and when genocide happens. We have used our findings to narrow our focus and clarify our mission. We aim to confront the genocide trap -- where…

$54k
Granted FY2023
3
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$25k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$123k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Bellwether International funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$25k100%
FY20201$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

International$15kCivil Rights$10kReligion$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Irf Secretariat$10,00011%
Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice$10,00011%
Panzi Foundation$9,85011%
International Visitors Utah Council$5,00011%

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Find your warmest path to Bellwether International through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bellwether International

How much does Bellwether International give?
Bellwether International reported 3 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $53,713 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bellwether International fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (43%), Civil Rights (29%), Religion (29%).
Who are Bellwether International's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Irf Secretariat ($10k), Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice ($10k), Panzi Foundation ($10k).
Does Bellwether International fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Bellwether International based?
Bellwether International is based in UT.

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 4 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $30k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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