Blair Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221500475
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Blairstown, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9083626121
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,548,229
- Expenses
- $47,439,067
- Assets
- $311,129,808
- Liabilities
- $31,092,326
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- PETER CURRAN (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $736,904 total reported compensation
- JAMES A FRICK (ASSISTANT TREASURER & COO): $542,687 total reported compensation
- CRAIG HALL (ADVANCEMENT): $397,834 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Blair’s mission is to know our students so we may empower them to understand more fully themselves and the world. Student Discussion Directors:** Organize on-campus discussions, support ongoing conversations on DEIB, social justice and other related topics. Student Directors of Campus Programming:** Support campus gatherings that promote DEIB efforts. This includes events that other groups may be planning (for example, International Weekend) or creating and planning additional events (such as other heritage month celebrations). Student Directors of Campus Outreach:** Create proactive opportunities for students to offer feedback on their Blair experiences and organize ways to actively seek that feedback.
What it reported doing in 2024
Blair academy serves 465 students from 29 countries and 26 different states. Blair offers a rich and challenging curriculum, world class programs for athletes and artists of all abilities and an array of meaningful leadership, travel, and service opportunities. We invest in discovering and understanding our students' talents, interests and personalities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.56; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $737K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.7M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.