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THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC

THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,425,676 to it, the largest being THE HARRISON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$39M
34/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What The Blue Ridge School Inc does

Mission

We specifically focus on helping boys reach their potential through personalized, structured, innovative learning practices in a college preparatory, all-boarding community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instruction and scholarship - in 2024-2025 we had 194 total students, providing some form of financial assistance to 164 of them.

    $10,963,893 spentof which $6,316,037 as grants$13,349,850 earned by the program
    80% of program spending
  2. Student life, facilities and food service - the school provided these services to 194 students.

    $2,205,511 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. Student activities and services - field trips, special activities, student publications, athletics, dances and movies were provided for 194 students.

    $487,324 spent$13,086 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,656,728.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 95 ($11M) Expenses 105 ($11M) Net assets 103 ($27M)2019 Revenue 114 ($13M) Expenses 113 ($12M) Net assets 106 ($27M)2020 Revenue 117 ($14M) Expenses 116 ($12M) Net assets 113 ($29M)2021 Revenue 115 ($13M) Expenses 113 ($12M) Net assets 135 ($35M)2022 Revenue 116 ($13M) Expenses 127 ($14M) Net assets 122 ($31M)2023 Revenue 145 ($17M) Expenses 146 ($16M) Net assets 123 ($32M)2024 Revenue 162 ($19M) Expenses 140 ($15M) Net assets 144 ($37M)2025 Revenue 147 ($17M) Expenses 158 ($17M) Net assets 150 ($39M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (158)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36M to $41M (+13%).

$32M
$33M
$35M
$36M
$40M
$37M
$36M
$41M
$42M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$804k
’17
−$268k
’18
$915k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$239k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$3.7M
’24
−$13k
’25
1.0
months of
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

Robert Sasser Iii

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252726282421222322
Joined·+5+4+5+2+2+7+6+3
No longer listed·35365654
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $133k → $490k.

13 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

25% 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 THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC.

18%
largest funder
40%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 38% · 2019 14% · 2020 28% · 2021 22% · 2022 22% · 2023 27% — 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

50% of THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

51% of THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $868k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 12%Fundraising 7%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC?
THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,425,676 to it, the largest being THE HARRISON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,425,676 in grants to THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC?
THE HARRISON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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