California · Nonprofit
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,601,423 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($718,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $822k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $559k
What Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today does
Mission
To improve academic and personal success for at-promise youth through collaboration and innovative approaches to mentoring and learning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Bridge to Success Program partners with six schools across LBUSD, utilizing a curriculum that is based on the learning needs for middle and high school students who have not been successful in a traditional classroom setting, are credit deficient, and are at-risk for dropping out. The program focuses on student's learning in academic subjects, financial literacy, social skill building, college and career preparation, and goal setting. 564 students were served through this program, providing 2,662 1:1 mentoring hours to students.
$243,509 spent47% of program spendingThe Academic Mentoring Program recruited, screened, trained, placed, and supported 111 college student volunteers in existing in-school and after school programs to provide 1:1 and small group mentoring to children and young adults in grades K-12. The volunteers tutor, provide homework assistance and high-quality lesson plans, and engage their students in planned enrichment activities. 2,714 Mentoring hours were provided to student across four LBUSD sites.
$191,894 spent37% of program spendingThe Ready to Rise Program provides academic, career, and personal development support to at-promise youth who face barriers to school success, including credit deficiency, homelessness, gang pressure, lack of parental involvement, and exposure to violence. The program supports students through credit recovery, workforce development training, leadership development, college preparedness workshops, career exploration, and mentoring. Ready to Rise is designed to help students stay engaged in school, build positive relationships with caring adults, develop life and social skills, prepare for graduation, and pursue post-secondary education or career pathways.
$83,469 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $518,872.
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 2020 to 2021, from $470k to $613k (+30%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 26% · 2023 12% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $96k → $438k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 44% · 2019 34% · 2020 54% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
93% of Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k 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
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today is better cushioned than half of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: 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 Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today?
- Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,601,423 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($718,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,601,423 in grants to Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $718,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today 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.
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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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing