New Jersey · Nonprofit
BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC
BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,428,450 to it, the largest being The Tepper Foundation ($2,050,875). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Summit Foundationlocal
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio match
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $593k → $35k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $31k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Better Education for Kids Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC’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
BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 85% · 2019 82% · 2020 85% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Summit FoundationlocalNJ · funds 50 organizations near you
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prosperity Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edu21c Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillsborough County School Readiness Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care of Sw Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chun & Jane Chiu Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The 30 Day Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Every Student Every Community Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Duval Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE 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 BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC?
- BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,428,450 to it, the largest being The Tepper Foundation ($2,050,875). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,428,450 in grants to BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC?
- The Tepper Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,050,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing