· Public charity
Partners for Better Futures
Partners for Better Futures (PBF) helps improve the lives of poor people around the world, primarily focusing on children and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $660,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $650,636 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Partners Asia | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $715k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: A grant to Anankdakshan Learning Center, India, for operating expenses. Anandakshan Learning Space (ALLS) is a grammar school in India founded in 2014 by a group of middle-class families with the goal of providing a high-quality education with a non-traditional teaching philosophy to their children. BSI proposed and ALSS agreed to expand and adjust the enrollment at the school so that at least 25% of the students will be from underserved and less advantaged families. BSI's grant subsidizes the cost of enrolling students who are not able to pay the normal fees. The school currently has an enrollment of close to 200 students. · Grant to KIRAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST (KET) and THE FOUNDATION ACADEMY SCHOOL (TFA), India. The grant is to pay a significant portion of the budget for operations - for teacher and staff salaries, plus other operating expenses. It is for one-year and may be extended year-by-year per reporting about the existing school and progress towards an expansion of the school (which will be in a different location from the existing school.) KET is a nonprofit, non-government, social service society. It was founded in 2018 with the collective efforts of a few committed citizens with a view to provide services in Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal. A primary service has been to provide a quality education to children. It gives priority to underserved children and women's empowerment through job opportunities and promotion of education and expansion of skills for job opportunities. TFA is a school developed by KET. · Grant to JP Harali School, India, for operating expenses of a program called Anandshala. It is daily, afterschool program with a variety of educational and learning activities, plus organized play activities. It is a place for children to go to improve their "regular school learning," which many of the children do not have at all because their parents are migrant farm workers. The programs are offered in nearly 100 local villages. A qualified teacher is always the leader of each program, and she/he is usually supported by additional adults who volunteer their services. Typically 20-25 children will participate. There are no fees charged.
Stated purpose: A grant to Ebenezer High School, Myanmar, was made to increase much-needed classroom capacity. This includes construction of a dedicated school building with 5 classrooms and other essential facilities to support the educational development needs of the students. The school building is 26 feet by 100 feet, with 5 classrooms and 4 latrines (2 for boys and 2 for girls), a new water pipe installation, furniture for the students, solar lighting installation the school, and student dormitories. · A grant to the Ministry of Women, Youth, and Children's Affairs, Myanmar, was made to help victims of the devastating March 28 2025 earthquake. Funds were used to provide food, medical supplies, and other direct assistance to people who were injured, or whose homes were damaged or destroyed. Volunteers associated with local churches assisted in delivering aid. PBF received and reviewed photos and reports of how funds were used and the assistance that was provided. · A Grant to Guiding Star Learning Center in Ranong Thailand, was made to help build a multi-purpose hall for this school that serves over 700 migrant Myanmar children. This project was a collaboration with Partners Asia, a 501c3 organization that PBF has previously worked with. As a result of completion of the multi-purpose hall, the school is now able to conduct student events, community meetings, and various group learning experiences for the students. Funds were transferred through BEAM, and local NGO that assists Myanmar migrant workers.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Partners for Better Futures funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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