California · Nonprofit
BLUEPRINT
BLUEPRINT (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,534,218 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,026,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $72M
What Blueprint does
Mission
Blueprint is a non-profit real estate development organization providing low-cost facilities to high-quality charter schools
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Blueprint is accelerating the pace of urban school reform as a non-profit developer for public charter school facilities. By partnering with some of the nation's highest performing organizations that operate schools serving low-income students, we are helping these groups expand and serve more families. We create small, academically-friendly, sustainable and environmentally-responsible charter school campuses at a fraction of the "cost-per-seat" incurred by traditional public school systems. To date, Blueprint has completed nearly $1.4 billion in total projects, leveraging philanthropy, private financing, and state funding to create 115 facilities serving 55,000 students across multiple school districts and municipalities. The majority of schools supported by Blueprint's services serve at least 75% socio-economically disadvantaged students. Blueprint builds public charter schools that provide smaller, more customized learning environments that are yielding superior academic results. Charter schools are free public schools. Admission is open to all and determined by an unbiased lottery of the applicants to the school. The demand for charter schools continues to grow as more parents…
$5,173,137 spent$2,822,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,173,137.
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 $76M to $103M (+36%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of BLUEPRINT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Eric Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5.5M → $2.0M.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Blueprint Texas). These are real filings, and they are not money BLUEPRINT raised.
From the IRS filings of BLUEPRINT’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
BLUEPRINT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 BLUEPRINT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 38% · 2019 28% · 2020 56% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
10% of BLUEPRINT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
BLUEPRINT draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BLUEPRINT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BLUEPRINT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Pcsd 1111 West Manchester Avenue LLC · disregarded
- Pcsd 2301 Beverly LLC · disregarded
- Pcsd 701 105th Avenue LLC · disregarded
- Pcsd 5100 Broadway LLC · disregarded
- Pcsd West 23rd Street LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUEPRINT: 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 BLUEPRINT?
- BLUEPRINT (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,534,218 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,026,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUEPRINT have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $27,534,218 in grants to BLUEPRINT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUEPRINT?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,026,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUEPRINT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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