New York · Nonprofit
BLUE ENGINE INC
BLUE ENGINE INC (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,975,939 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,400,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Blue Engine Inc does
Mission
Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blue engine partners with schools and school systems to improve instructional practices so that all students can access and engage in grade-level learning. Through job-embedded coaching and professional learning, blue engine supports teachers, instructional leaders, and system leaders to build stronger instructional systems and more inclusive classroom practices. This work helps educators plan, deliver, and adapt instruction to meet diverse learner needs while maintaining high expectations and access to grade-level content for all students.during the 2024-2025 school year, blue engine implemented 28 partnerships across 9 regions. Through these partnerships, blue engine supported 3,459 teachers and 84 instructional leaders, ultimately impacting more than 45,000 students. In classrooms supported by blue engine, educators strengthened their ability to collaborate effectively, implement daily small-group instruction, and use assessment data to adapt instruction to individual learner needs. These practices increase student access to grade-level learning and contribute to more equitable learning experiences.
$2,346,283 spent$1,883,688 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,346,283.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $1.6M (−44%).
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 20% · 2018 13% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 22% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of BLUE ENGINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jessica Brunken
CEO
Board chair
Tom Higbie
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $817k.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BLUE ENGINE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
BLUE ENGINE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 BLUE ENGINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 43% · 2019 23% · 2020 18% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of BLUE ENGINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of BLUE ENGINE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BLUE ENGINE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLUE ENGINE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $14
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUE ENGINE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 BLUE ENGINE INC: 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 BLUE ENGINE INC?
- BLUE ENGINE INC (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,975,939 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,400,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE ENGINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $10,975,939 in grants to BLUE ENGINE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE ENGINE INC?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE ENGINE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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