· Public charity
Bluum Inc
Bluum is a non-profit organization committed to ensuring idaho's children reach their fullest potential by cultivation great leaders and innovative schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $381k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $380,857 |
| FERN WATERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $139,512 |
| NORTH IDAHO CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $8,172 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EAElevate Academy3× · 2020–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +98%
- TVTreasure Valley Classical Academy Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +127%
- FPFuture Public School Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +70%
Funded once
- INIdaho Novus Classical Academygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $838k · revenue ×261
- TATHE ACADEMY INC (ABN CONNOR ACADEone grant, 2023 · $800k
- CPCompass Public Charter Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Academy Nampa Llc and the most unlike its peers is Gem Prep Twin Falls Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Elevate Academy ↗
- Who funds Treasure Valley Classical Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Future Public School Inc ↗
- Who funds GEM PREP TWIN FALLS LLC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Novus Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds GEM PREP MERIDIAN SOUTH LLC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Academy North LLC ↗
- Who funds Compass Public Charter School ↗
- Who funds MOSAICS Public School Inc ↗
- Who funds Idaho Arts Charter School Inc ↗
- Who funds Elevate Academy Nampa LLC ↗
- Who funds GEM PREP MERIDIAN NORTH LLC ↗
- Who funds White Pine Charter School ↗
- Who funds RISE Charter School Inc ↗
- Who funds Cardinal Academy Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Pinecrest Academy of Idaho ↗
- Who funds Pinecrest Academy of Lewiston Inc ↗
- Who funds Fern-Waters Public Charter School ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ja & Kathryn Albertson Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Louis Calder Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bluum Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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