Bellwether Education Partners Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 26-1914515. Reported 57 grants totalling $6,688,774 to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Bellwether Education Partners Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 25% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $60,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $1,676,921. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edbuild Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $1,676,921 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tntp Inc | New York, NY | $953,686 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| 4MATIV Technologies Inc | Hamilton Square, NJ | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Edward Charles Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | New York, NY | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado Succeeds | Denver, CO | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bluum Inc | Boise, ID | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cityschools Collaborative | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youthprise | Minneapolis, MN | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Longview Independent School District | Longview, TX | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Responsive Ed Texas | Lewisville, TX | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tuloso-Midway Independent School District | Corpous Christi, TX | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Plus Unlimited Charter School | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compass Rose Education Inc | San Antonio, TX | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Education Foundation of Sarasota Co Unty Inc | Sarasota, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Families Empowered | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greatschools Inc | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Quality Education Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meridian World School LLC | Round Rock, TX | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc | Texas City, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Paul Quinn College | Dallas, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Primary Class Inc Dba Odyssey | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trinity Basin Preparatory Inc | Grand Prairie, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village Tech Schools | Duncanville, TX | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $66,667 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| People for Pseo | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Education Trust Inc | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Excellence Ineducation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kids First Chicago for Education | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Groundswell Network Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 50CAN Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Advance Illinois Nfp | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Edchoice Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Education Reform Now Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Excels | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Stand for Children Leadership Center | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Mind Trust Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thomas B Fordham Institute | Burke, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| A Plus Education Partnership | Montgomery, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Faithacts for Education Inc | Hamden, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Go Public Schools | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innovate Public Schools | Menlo Park, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pave Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Summer School Initiative Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
9 of 48 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Edbuild Inc
TO SUPPORT FINAL TRANSFER OF FUNDS HELD UNDER FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT - 4MATIV Technologies Inc
SUBGRANT TO BUILD A COALITION AROUND STUDENT MOBILITY AND SUPPORT NASCENT MOBILITY ECOSYSTEMS IN PHOENIX, AZ AND INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Edward Charles Foundation
TO SUPPORT DESIGNING OR DEVELOPING AND LAUNCHING, PILOTING, OR IMPLEMENTING NEW SOLUTIONS TO HELP FAMILIES FURTHEST FROM OPPORTUNITY ACCESS FLEXIBLE, PERSONALIZED LEARNING OPTIONS - Citybridge Education
TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS AS THEY HELP FAMILIES LEVERAGE STATE OR LOCAL POLICIES DESIGNED TO ENABLE ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTAL LEARNING OPTIONS. - Longview Independent School District
TO SUPPORT PARENT-DIRECTED TUTORING FOR STUDENTS DURING THE 2022-23 SCHOOL YEAR. - Aup
TO SUPPORT A CHARTER SCHOOL INCUBATOR REPLICATION/EXPANSION PROGRAM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | $357,500 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 14 | $1,143,686 | $27,500 |
| 2022 | 24 | $2,076,667 | $70,833 |
| 2023 | 11 | $3,110,921 | $100,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
32% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $60,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bellwether Education Partners Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 68 Harrison Ave Ste 605 Pmb 735636, Boston, MA, 02111.
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