Idaho · Nonprofit
BLUUM INC
BLUUM INC (Idaho) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,685,761 to it, the largest being JA & KATHRYN ALBERTSON FOUNDATION INC ($11,855,726). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $185k
What Bluum Inc does
Mission
Bluum is a non-profit organization committed to ensuring idaho's children reach their fullest potential by cultivation great leaders and innovative schools. We work to help idaho become a national model for how to maximize learning opportunities for children. Bluum plans to help create 20,000 new, high-performing school seats in idaho in 10 years.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Bluum is a boise-based non-profit organization committed to ensuring idaho's children reach their fullest potential by cultivating great leaders and innovative schools. We work to help idaho become a national model for how to maximize learning opportunities for children. In partnership with the j.a. And kathryn albertson family foundation, the u.s. Department of education, and other private and public funding sources bluum serves as a funding intermediary and local champion for supporting entrepreneurial education ventures, especially public charter schools.
$4,415,943 spentof which $528,541 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,415,943.
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 $2.6M to $5.7M (+118%).
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: 2019 47% · 2020 52% · 2021 59% · 2022 57% · 2023 56% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BLUUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
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
Terry Ryan
CEO
Board chair
John Prehn
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $280k → $3.5M.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BLUUM INC’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
BLUUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 98% — 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
25% of BLUUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
87% of BLUUM INC's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
BLUUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BLUUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52.3M on record.
- Department of Education$52.3M
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 BLUUM INC
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUUM INC: 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 BLUUM INC?
- BLUUM INC (Idaho) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,685,761 to it, the largest being JA & KATHRYN ALBERTSON FOUNDATION INC ($11,855,726). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $13,685,761 in grants to BLUUM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUUM INC?
- JA & KATHRYN ALBERTSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,855,726 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 12 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