Utah · Nonprofit
BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL
BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,022 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($305,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $415k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Bellwether International does
Mission
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 communities with desperate economic conditions and a history of genocide face mounting incentives to use violence and turn on their neighbors rather than address systemic issues. Governments perpetrate genocides but communities carry them out. Our vision is to create a world where governments can prevent genocide top-down and individuals resist genocide bottom-up to create peaceful and plural societies. Our theory of change is centered on prioritizing our four impact areas: conflict transformation economic development policy and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Iraq: Bellwethers work in Iraq aimed to uncover and interrupt the long term effects of intergenerational trauma. In 2023 we began cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions for Yazidi women and youth many of whom lived in camps and in poverty. Over the course of multiple sessions both groups saw marked improvement in their approach to conflict and prosocial behavior their generosity of spirit. From 2023-2024 working in 4 different cities there were clear positive mental health outcomes.In 2024 Bellwether continued to offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT group sessions to empower Yezidi women in their recovery from the trauma of the 2014 genocide. Building on the success of the CBT sessions in Sinjar Bellwether expanded its outreach to reach Yezidi women in Tel-Ezer at the community center. In Sinjar two rounds of eight-session programs were held from February to April and July to August involving a total of 26 women. In Tel-Ezer 28 women participated in a nine-week program running from April to May. The sessions covered key topics such as managing trauma symptoms emotional regulation addressing sleep disturbances and anger management. Each session included explanations of symptoms…
$118,047 spentof which $75,000 as grants39% of program spendingThe Bellwether International Ambassadors Programme is committed to genocide prevention education merging learning with social impact endeavors funded through micro-grants. This effort empowers global Bellwether ambassadors to create and execute community-based projects that tackle local requirements foster active knowledge dissemination and translate learning into tangible outcomes. Projects are in line with the overarching goal of genocide prevention with participants engaging in both online and offline learning on democracy human rights justice for women and girls and interfaith collaboration. Presently the program boasts 46 Ambassadors who have successfully executed 9 social impact projects with an additional 24 slated for completion by late 2025. The projects have spanned regions like Brazil Iraq and Nigeria with upcoming endeavors planned in Sudan Northern Ireland and England. In 2024 the micro-grants facilitated 408 individuals in accessing genocide and interfaith education equipping women with conflict resolution skills and capacity-building capabilities to bolster entrepreneurship. As of March 2025 the micro-grants have enabled ambassadors to reach 1,981 individuals…
$66,415 spentof which $50,000 as grants22% of program spendingNigeria: Bellwethers work in Nigeria sought to test how far protecting religious freedom could go in mass atrocity prevention. In 2021 we began interfaith dialogues between Christians and Muslims as well as between tribes IDPs and host communities. These efforts centered religious freedom as a gateway for intimate reflections about daily life and the community they wanted to create for their children to grow up in. From 2021-2024 working in 12 different cities there was a meaningful decrease in violence. More importantly the enormous energy and momentum led to participants starting their own initiatives. In remote communities Bellwether combined interfaith dialogues with emergency response and education initiatives. Meanwhile in 2024 Bellwether launched the Faith for Rights Symposium with the United Nations where attendees from 120 organizations designed locally-led projects aligned with the UNs Faith for Rights commitments aimed at reducing ethnic and religious intolerance. These projects are now being implemented across Nigeria. Bellwethers work in Nigeria highlighted that violence is often manifest along religious divisions but enhancing religious freedom alone is not…
$53,433 spentof which $50,000 as grants18% of program spendingAmbassador program which is an education program to certify individuals in basic human rights principles.
$66,415 spentof which $50,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $304,310.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $123k (+3352%).
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.
100% of BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $125k → $65k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 88% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
85% of BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL: 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 INTERNATIONAL?
- BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,022 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($305,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $405,022 in grants to BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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