Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,197,439 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($10,851,261). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Bellwether Education Partners Inc does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since our founding in 2010, we have worked to develop and amplify the insights, innovations, and ideas necessary to advance educational options in this country by:1. Supporting mission-driven clients from school systems and public agencies to nonprofits and philanthropies as they navigate tough decisions2. Informing the sector with clear insights and bold idea3. Bringing leaders together to learn, connect, and drive changeour work spans early childhood education through postsecondary and career pathways. Our team of nearly 100 experts pairs deep knowledge across all these areas with experience on the ground as educators, school leaders, policymakers, and executives in the public and private sectors allowing us to offer unparalleled insights for our clients and the sector.we have worked with more than 800 clients nationwide in some of the nation's largest cities and most remote rural areas supporting them with strategy, continuous improvement, and analysis of how the education ecosystem shapes their work. Our partners include individual schools, charter networks, traditional school districts, state education leaders, region-based intermediaries, philanthropic funders, advocacy…
$22,495,815 spentof which $224,548 as grants$17,920,914 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,495,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $23M (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Grace Heintz
Secretary & chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $8.5M.
16 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 30% · 2019 39% · 2020 21% · 2021 39% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
23% of BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $121k on record.
- Grant$121k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC?
- BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,197,439 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($10,851,261). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $42,197,439 in grants to BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,851,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 77 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing