Wyoming · Nonprofit
BLUE GRIT
BLUE GRIT (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,443 to it, the largest being ANDERSON DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND ($500,443). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $-682065
What Blue Grit does
Mission
Raising awareness and supporting blue-collar trades (including but not limited to welding). To support awareness programs and provide grants/scholarships, thereby creating opportunities for individuals to pursue quality educational programs focused on practical and technical skills. This effort will support the revival of the manufacturing workforce and job growth in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Despite dedicated efforts to succeed as a school, the nonprofit has determined that its resources, including time and funds, would be more effectively utilized in raising awareness and promoting blue-collar trades (including but not limited to welding). The nonprofit aims to support awareness programs and provide grants/scholarships, thereby creating opportunities for individuals to pursue quality educational programs focused on practical and technical skills. This effort will support the revival of the manufacturing workforce and job growth in the united states. The nonprofit already possesses the funds to raise awareness and award scholarships and therefore requested a reclassification from a 170(b)(1)(a)(ii) school to a 170(b)(1)(a)(vi) public charity. The irs approved the organization's advance approval of grant procedures under section 4945(g) in a determination letter dated march 10, 2025. See part iii, line 3.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Operation of a technical school to train individuals who want to begin a career in welding. This includes the provision of student housing while they attend school. Support of the welding industry by offering scholarships and grants to individuals so that they may obtain the needed education to begin a career in welding. During 2024, over 190 scholarships were provided.
$5,264,462 spentof which $156,995 as grants$2,046,203 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,264,462.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.8M to $370k (−95%).
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.
17% of BLUE GRIT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GRIT’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
BLUE GRIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 BLUE GRIT.
“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 BLUE GRIT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $600k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 GRIT's revenue fell 67% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BLUE GRIT
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE GRIT: 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 GRIT?
- BLUE GRIT (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,443 to it, the largest being ANDERSON DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND ($500,443). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE GRIT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $600,443 in grants to BLUE GRIT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE GRIT?
- ANDERSON DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE GRIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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