Missouri · Nonprofit
BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT
BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,132 to it, the largest being KC ACTION FUND ($432,632). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $429k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $745k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Blaque Promise Project does
Mission
To help Black children striving to achieve their fullest potential by disrupting systems that disproportionately places them at risk of not achieving their dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The BLAQUE Promise Project continued its mission in 2025 to provide culturally affirming educational enrichment, literacy development, and leadership opportunities for children and families in Kansas City. Through its Freedom Schools programming and community-centered initiatives, the organization created safe, engaging, and academically enriching environments to strengthen literacy, build student confidence, deepen cultural identity, and combat learning loss disproportionately impacting historically underserved students.The organization also advanced planning efforts to redesign and expand future programming opportunities, including enhanced electives, field experiences, and middle school engagement strategies to better meet the evolving needs of returning scholars and families.
$296,771 spentof which $428,700 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,771.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $171k (+142%).
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.
100% of BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Jeron Ravin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300k → $308k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT’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
BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters 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 BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT?
- BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,132 to it, the largest being KC ACTION FUND ($432,632). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $745,132 in grants to BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT?
- KC ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $432,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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