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PARTNERS FOR BETTER FUTURES

EIN 82-2274818 LOS ALTOS, CA

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Revenue 2025
$754,095
Expenses 2025
$699,499

Program services were 99.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50
Classification
1000
Street
1275 FAIRWAY DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Partners for Better Futures (PBF) helps improve the lives of poor people around the world, primarily focusing on children and education. PBF does this by partnering with local organizations that are deeply involved in their own communities, and participating in carefully evaluated projects and programs. There are three continuing programs within PBF: Build a School in Burma (BSB), Build a School in India (BSI), and APC School Philippines (APC). In FY 2025 BSB made grants for new buildings for several schools, and made grants for projects including water and sanitation systems, and solar lighting systems. BSI made grants to support education for underserved children in India. APC made grants to the APC School in the Philippines.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Partners for Better Futures (PBF) helps improve the lives of poor people around the world, primarily focusing on children and education. PBF does this by partnering with local organizations that are deeply involved in their own communities, and participating in carefully evaluated projects and programs. There are three programs within PBF: Build a School in Burma (BSB), Build a School in India (BSI), and APC School - Philippines (APC). Prior to the PBF's founding these programs had each operated for several years through "fiscal sponsors." In 2018 these operations joined together in a shared purpose, to help produce better futures for under-served people around the world.

  • The "Build a School in Burma" (BSB) program makes grants to support construction of school buildings in Myanmar. These grants have been fewer since the Febuary 2021 coup, which upended much of the country. This year BSB also supported education for Myanmar refugees, by making grants for construction of "Community Learning Centers" in bordering countries, primarily Thailand. BSB also provided help to schools that needed new furniture and sanitary facilities to support growing enrollments, and helped repair existing buildings. Overall, BSB has worked to provide safe, secure learning environments for students in poor, underserved communities, including refugees.

    Expenses $230,521 · Grants $200,082 · Revenue $177,937

  • "APC School" program made grants to support ongoing operations of Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) which provides an integrated and holistic education for the indigenous children and youth along the Pantaron Range of Mindanao, Philippines. The APC school works to promote and deepen cultural understanding while providing approximately 400 indigenous children with the knowledge and skills they need to confidently relate with mainstream Philippine society and advance in the formal education ladder.

    Expenses $98,550 · Grants $98,550 · Revenue $93,201

  • The Build a School in India (BSI) program made several grants to increase access to education primarily to disadvantaged students in rural India. This included the following grants: Anandakshan; ASHA Action Self Reliance Hope; Cochlea Pune Hearing & Speech; Holistic Education Mission; Kiran Educational Trust - Foundation Academy; Mata Balak Utkarsha Pratishtha; Sondara; Spandan School; Srotoshwini Trust; and Unnatia Institute. Each of these organizations met India's strict criteria under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) The FCRA is the primary legal framework regulating how India's non-governmental organizations (NGOs), charities, and individuals receive and utilize foreign funding. Regulated strictly by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the laws ensure that foreign funds are used for approved social, educational, religious, cultural, or economic purposes and do not impact national security.

    Expenses $368,742 · Grants $368,742 · Revenue $482,871

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Naing Lin Swe

    Country Director - Burma

    Total calculated
    $26,192
    From this org
    $26,192
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Andrew Lederer

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Daniel Kipp

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Robert G Cornwell

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Mark Kirchen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Joyce McKinney

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $754,095
    Expenses
    $699,499
    Contributions
    $750,163
    Grants paid
    $665,375
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $280,842
    Expenses
    $548,358
    Contributions
    $270,017
    Grants paid
    $505,243
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $318,722
    Expenses
    $499,590
    Contributions
    $316,185
    Grants paid
    $468,988

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,900
    Expenses
    $511,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $881,134

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,586
    Expenses
    $429,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,837

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $659,094
    Expenses
    $488,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $524,502

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $676,438
    Expenses
    $322,214
    Assets (EOY)
    $354,224

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
Principal officer
Andrew Lederer
Mailing address
1275 Fairway DriveLos Altos CA 94024
Website
partnersforbetterfutures.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Partners Asia

    $10,000

    2023 Grant to fund assistance to Myanmar refugees, and victims of floods. Partners Asia has ongoing operations in Thailand, and Myanmar, and the directors of Partners for Better Futures know of their ongoing work through their contacts there.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.