Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL
BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,238 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($35,238). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $-390771
What Bluford Charter School does
Mission
To provide a school-to-career academic program that emphasizes self-sufficiency, civic responsibility and problem solving through mathematics, language arts and the sciences.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
The educational program utilizes community resources within bluford's immediate neighborhood through a variety of before, during, and after school partnerships with families, businesses, social agencies, civic groups and community organizations to enhance the academic program and to support students and their families.
$5,799,892 spent$7,542,273 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,799,892.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $2.8M (+41%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Joel Seay
Facilities chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL’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
100% of BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Universal Community Homes · exempt
- Universal Education Companies · exempt
- Universal Audenried Charter School · exempt
- Universal Vare Charter School · exempt
- Universal Alcorn Charter School · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,238 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($35,238). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,238 in grants to BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL?
- Elevate 215 is the largest funder on record, with $35,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUFORD CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 1 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