Idaho · Nonprofit
Compass Public Charter School
Compass Public Charter School (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $809,710 to it, the largest being BLUUM INC ($800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $810k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Compass Public Charter School does
Mission
Public Education.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The school is an independent state-funded public charter school governed under Title 33, Chapter 52 of Idaho Code. It provides innovative educational curricula within the public school system but independent from the traditional structure. Virtually all revenues and expenses relate to this single program service.
$11,789,506 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,789,506.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.3M to $24M (+191%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 91% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% · 2024 91% · 2025 91% · 2026 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Compass Public Charter School’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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
Norm Varin
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $801k → $894.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Compass Public 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Compass Public Charter School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 Compass Public Charter School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 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
100% of Compass Public Charter School's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Compass Public Charter School has grown faster than half of the 4,213 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,213 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like Compass Public 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Compass Public 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 Compass Public Charter School?
- Compass Public Charter School (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $809,710 to it, the largest being BLUUM INC ($800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Compass Public Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $809,710 in grants to Compass Public Charter School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Compass Public Charter School?
- BLUUM INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Compass Public Charter School 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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