Blue School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270753913
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175335177
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,531
- Expenses
- $552,110
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER LAMBERTS STANTON (TRUSTEE, CO-FOUNDER)
- BELGIES ANAN (TRUSTEE)
- JULIAN BARROWCLIFFE (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Blue school's mission is to develop and share an inquiry-based approach to education that fosters creativity, promotes academic excellence, nurtures human relationships and inspires a lifelong passion for learning.
What it reported doing in 2023
Blue school was a n-8 school in downtown manhattan. Spanning the foundational first decade of life, the blue school education provided for a rich and unique range of integrated academic, social and artistic experiences. Through our commitment to community, creativity and academic vigor, blue school nurtures a fertile imagination, a keen intellect, a big heart and an insatiable passion for learning. The blue school closed in june 2023 and entered into a strategicagreement with lrei which offered admission to students for fall 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -585.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 31.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $172K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.