Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,039,652 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($983,722). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $975k
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $664k
What Boston Partners in Education Inc does
Mission
By creating supportive relationships between students and volunteer mentors, boston partners in education ensures a more equitable city where every bps student is equipped with the skills, opportunity, and confidence to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In motivate, a volunteer works with a full class of students in grades prek-2, at minimum one hour per week, in response to teacher requests for support. The volunteer helps run activities and manage the classroom, freeing the teacher to focus on individual students, thus improving his/her effectiveness. Volunteers help students build proficiency in reading, writing, math, science, art, and other subjects in a variety of contexts (e.g., independent work, small groups), while also helping teachers achieve social-emotional learning goals (e.g., building empathy). In 2024-2025, motivate matched 556 children from 25 classrooms in 14 schools with 33 mentors, who spent an estimated 1,818 hours with students.
$93,848 spent$8,813 earned by the program14% of program spendingAccelerate can assist any student in grades k-8 identified by their teacher as needing extra academic or socio-emotional support. Accelerate mentors work one-on one with a student, or in small groups, during regular classroom instruction time. Accelerate is designed to help students who lack the skills, motivation or interest in ela or math. In 2024-2025, accelerate matched 216 students from 73 classrooms in 26 schools with 111 mentors, who spent an estimated 3,553 hours with students.
$234,468 spent$37,388 earned by the program36% of program spendingAim high supports students in grades 9-12 who have small gaps in skills and knowledge, and just need that extra push to find success. Aim high mentors work one-on-one or with a small group of students in humanities or science, technology, engineering and math (stem) subjects. Aim high helps students build confidence and resilience, and prepare for their future aspirations. In 2024-2025, aim high matched 116 students from 29 classrooms in 16 schools with 66 mentors, who spent an estimated 2,420 hours with students.
$200,634 spent$31,050 earned by the program30% of program spendingIn independent learning support (ils), mentors are connected with bps students in grades 1-12 who have self-identified or been identified by their families as benefiting from extra, focused academic support. Ils matches meet virtually for one hour per week for the duration of the school year. A silent volunteer proctor attends and monitors all sessions to ensure safety and security. In 2024-2025, ils matched 130 students from 96 classrooms in 35 schools with 117 mentors, who spent an estimated 3,488 hours with students. In pathfinders, volunteers make one-time visits to classrooms at all grade levels to share insights on their career choice, in hopes of guiding students to figure out what they'd like to pursue after high school. Through these engaging interactions, our volunteers not only share profound insights into their chosen careers, but also empower students to envision their futures, explore diverse career options, and seek out all the various pathways to achieve their goals. In 2024-2025, we held 17 pathfinders visits, reaching 452 students in 11 schools.
$130,818 spent$9,512 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $659,768.
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.
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 $766k to $1.5M (+94%).
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 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
John Heveran
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $217k → $522k.
14 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
63% 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 BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 47% · 2019 79% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 18% — 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
40% of BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
54% of BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
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 BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC?
- BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,039,652 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($983,722). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,039,652 in grants to BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $983,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION 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 66 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing