Vermont · Nonprofit
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,099,554 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($359,354). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $894k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-5050
What Unleashing the Power of Partnership for Learning Inc does
Mission
Up for learning supports educational communities' work toward systemic transformation, engaging all learners, and increasing the authentic voice of youth in learning and decision-making. We believe all young people have the right to a meaningful and engaging education. In each of our seven primary programs and customized community projects, we utilize research-based models that transform the student-teacher relationship to one of shared ownership and shared responsibility. Up offers facilitation, strategies, tools and ongoing coaching to ensure all young people have opportunities, support, knowledge and skills to pursue active roles in their learning, their lives and their community. Served schools in 12 of 14 counties in vermont, plus schools in ma, nh, de, ms, cherokee nation. In fy 25, up trained 75 teams including 1621 youth and 328 adults in 118 different schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Customized workthis work involves multiple day-long retreats and regular in-person or virtual meetings with the youth-adult team, typically monthly during the academic year. Many of these projects evolve into multi-year projects.up customizes our facilitation to meet the needs of the community. Regardless of the learning landscape, up will work with the youth-adult team to design an education that meets the needs of all learners and educators.this includes deepening relationships and elevating the responsibilities and roles of young people. Recently, this work has included district-wide work around increasing student voice, equity and facilitation of the portrait of a graduate project.
$365,097 spent$243,858 earned by the program52% of program spendingTransforming schools through restorative practices - this work involves multiple day-long retreats and regular in-person or virtual meetings with the youth-adult team, typically monthly during the academic year. Restorative practices employ a strengths-based approach to form stronger relationships and realize greater equity in education. When implemented holistically, restorative practices help develop a culture where everyone's voice is heard and valued and relationships become the cornerstone of the community. Restorative practices work by putting the emphasis on relationships, collaborative problem solving and collective responsibility.
$103,924 spent$56,777 earned by the program15% of program spendingProject aware - this project brings up work into all the elementary, middle, and high schools in three vermont districts. Work with lea's (local education agencies) and school leadership to understand alignment of social emotional learning and mental health initiatives with current school goals. This work involves multiple day-long retreats and regular in-person or virtual meetings with the youth-adult team, typically monthly during the academic year. Many of these projects evolve into multi-year projects.
$43,725 spent$2,000 earned by the program6% of program spendingGetting to 'y' is a nationally designated "best practice" program for youth to take a lead in bringing meaning to their own youth risk behavior survey data.youth and adults transforming schools together fosters engagement in learning by increasing rigor, relevance, relationships, and shared responsibility. With this framework, student and teacher teams use data to understand issues that impact learning from multiple perspectives and then become agents of change.cultivating pathways to sustainability connects the promising efforts of vermont's act 77 - personalized learning and flexible pathways to graduation. Guided by the united nations sustainable development goals, youth-adult teams link what is going on inside their schools to larger efforts underway, toward making a positive difference in their community and world.
$192,479 spentof which $5,600 as grants$188,654 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $705,225.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $507k to $332k (−34%).
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: 2017 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 13% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% · 2024 13% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Lindsey Halman
Executive director
Board chair
Eli Pine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $102k → $412k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING 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
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 56% · 2021 46% · 2022 40% · 2023 87% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
60% of UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING 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 $440k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC?
- UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,099,554 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($359,354). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,099,554 in grants to UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC?
- TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $359,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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