Texas · Nonprofit
BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,040 to it, the largest being JIM THOMPSON FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $0
What Blue Sky Educational Foundation does
Mission
The organization was created to: (I) foster, promote and advance aviation, the physical or biological sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) education by young people of all backgrounds; (ii) encourage interest and personal participation in aviation and related fields; and (iii) provide scholarships to middle school, high school and college aged youth of all backgrounds for the advancement of aviation and stem learning, the pursuit of aviation-related interests and the pursuit of education in stem studies at an accredited college, university or post-secondary school or aviation camp, academy, facility or technical school for educational instruction and educational camps in such areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For students to attend the eaa air academy, national flight academy, and other flight training programs throughout the country, as well as transportation to and from the air academy. The focus of the air academy is to utilize the motivation and excitement of aviation toengage styudents in stem content.
$99,064 spentof which $66,232 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,064.
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.
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 $106k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Lee Siudzinski
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’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 SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
46% 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 SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 76% · 2022 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
57% of BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.
Organizations like BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jim Thompson Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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 SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,040 to it, the largest being JIM THOMPSON FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $140,040 in grants to BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- JIM THOMPSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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