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BES INC

BES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,917,877 to it, the largest being EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC ($3,116,254). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.6M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$11M
19/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Bes Inc does

Mission

Bes identifies and prepares excellent leaders to transform education in their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Bes provides various training and professional development programs to individuals. From school founders and executive directors, to operations leaders, deans of students and directors of curriculum and instructions, bes trains leaders to build schools, to ensure their schools to excel, and to substain their results over time. Bes invests in leaders so that they can invest in their teams and students, delivering on the promise of an excellent education for every child.

    $5,791,644 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,791,644.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 73 ($11M) Expenses 91 ($12M) Net assets 92 ($12M)2019 Revenue 85 ($13M) Expenses 80 ($11M) Net assets 107 ($14M)2021 Revenue 52 ($7.8M) Expenses 55 ($7.3M) Net assets 69 ($9.0M)2022 Revenue 48 ($7.1M) Expenses 53 ($7.0M) Net assets 69 ($8.9M)2023 Revenue 56 ($8.3M) Expenses 65 ($8.5M) Net assets 69 ($8.9M)2024 Revenue 73 ($11M) Expenses 65 ($8.5M) Net assets 90 ($12M)2025 Revenue 45 ($6.6M) Expenses 58 ($7.7M) Net assets 83 ($11M)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (58)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

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 $11M to $14M (+23%).

$14M
$13M
$16M
$9.7M
$9.5M
$11M
$14M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of BES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
−$1.1M
’18
$2.0M
’19
$539k
’21
$165k
’22
−$193k
’23
$2.4M
’24
−$1.0M
’25
1.9
months of
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.

Chief executive

Aasimah Navlakhi

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1523192017181818
Joined·+13+0·+5+5+4+5
No longer listed·54·8445
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.9M.

6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 BES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

BES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

68% 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 BES INC.

24%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 25% · 2019 33% · 2020 48% · 2021 27% · 2022 35% · 2023 28% — 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.

How long its funders stay

19% of BES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

BES INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 16 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
NV
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
MS
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BES INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BES 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

45%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BES 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 BES INC?
BES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,917,877 to it, the largest being EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC ($3,116,254). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BES INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $12,917,877 in grants to BES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BES INC?
EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,116,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BES 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.

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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 37 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