Missouri · Nonprofit
BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,354,876 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,194,058). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programBLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.1M
Recipients
1
Contributions on record
$1.4M
Donors on record
9
Payments out are 0.80x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Jackson County Community Children's Services Fundshared funderslocal
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio match
- Oppenstein Brothers Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $441k → $225.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 SPRINGS EDUCATION 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.
Where its funders are
96% of BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Jackson County Community Children's Services Fundshared funderslocalMO · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 122 organizations near you
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oppenstein Brothers Foundationshared funderslocalMO · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiefs for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friend to Friend Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mr Holland's Opus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinman-Oldfield Fam Fdn Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,354,876 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,194,058). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,354,876 in grants to BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,194,058 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing