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BLUE JACKET INC

BLUE JACKET INC (Indiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,109 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($395,125). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$1.3M
33/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Blue Jacket Inc does

Mission

The mission of blue jacket, inc. Is to provide education, training and opportunities to any disadvantaged person who is striving to earn a second chance at gainful employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Blue jacket, inc. Was created to provide education, training and opportunities to any disadvantaged person who is striving to earn a second chance at gainful employment. The career academy is a two week, forty (40) hour training program that provides job-readiness training, pre and post- placement services including job placement, education, skills and interest assessments, and personal and professional development. In 2025, 390 individuals were enrolled in the career academy and 248 graduated. Blue jacket staffing provides transitional employment for the career academy graduates for which 188 were employed during 2025.

    $940,148 spent
    48% of program spending
  2. The mission of blue jacket, inc. Is to provide education, training and opportunities to any disadvantaged person who is striving to earn a second chance at gainful employment. The clothing company, renew thrift store, and tall rabbit cafe are retail locations staffed by former career academy graduates. The fantasy of lights holiday light shows are also staffed by former career academy graduates, providing temporary employment opportunities. The retail locations and fantasy of lights events align closely with the organization's mission by providing vocational training for career academy graduates. The clothing store also provides business professional clothing to career academy clients at no cost. In 2025, 6 graduates were employed at the clothing company, 13 were employed at renew thrift store, 8 were employed at tall rabbit cafe, and 26 were employed at fantasy of lights.

    $1,037,803 spent
    52% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,977,951.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($840k)2018 Revenue 168 ($2.2M) Expenses 156 ($1.8M) Net assets 142 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 92 ($1.2M) Expenses 126 ($1.4M) Net assets 115 ($964k)2020 Revenue 126 ($1.6M) Expenses 125 ($1.4M) Net assets 142 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 130 ($1.7M) Expenses 121 ($1.4M) Net assets 179 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 114 ($1.5M) Expenses 145 ($1.6M) Net assets 159 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 218 ($2.8M) Expenses 220 ($2.5M) Net assets 200 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 212 ($2.7M) Expenses 254 ($2.9M) Net assets 185 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 209 ($2.7M) Expenses 266 ($3.0M) Net assets 150 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (209)Expenses (266)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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 $1.7M to $2.4M (+44%).

$929k
$1.3M
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of BLUE JACKET INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$164k
’17
$415k
’18
−$231k
’19
$226k
’20
$311k
’21
−$162k
’22
$342k
’23
−$123k
’24
−$296k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Anthony Hudson

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151615151616161516
Joined·+1+4+0+3+0+2+2+5
No longer listed·05020234
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $87k → $641k.

7 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 JACKET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 JACKET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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

43% 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 JACKET INC.

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 51% · 2019 31% · 2020 30% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 39% — 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

68% of BLUE JACKET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of BLUE JACKET INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MN
MI
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUE JACKET INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding BLUE JACKET INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.

State$210k
Top programs
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Pub Sch Ed$210k

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 JACKET INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 28%Fundraising 5%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE JACKET INC?
BLUE JACKET INC (Indiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,109 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($395,125). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE JACKET INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,033,109 in grants to BLUE JACKET INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE JACKET INC?
AWS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $395,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE JACKET INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 43 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