Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC
PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,919 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($63,860). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- United Way of South Hampton Roadsshared funders
- Redwood Creek Actionportfolio match
- Horizon Charitable Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $104k → $17k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD 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
PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 100% · 2019 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
76% of PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of South Hampton Roadsshared fundersVA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Redwood Creek Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oakw Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Now Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progress Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campaigning for Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ground Game Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Einhorn Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forward Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Natembea Foundationportfolio 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 PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC?
- PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,919 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($63,860). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $165,919 in grants to PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD INC?
- Global Impact is the largest funder on record, with $63,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERS FOR A BETTER WORLD 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 5funders 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