About Blue Learning
Blue Learning is an education-focused funder that directs almost all of its giving to a single charter school network and its Texas affiliate. Its grants are large, repeat gifts aimed at supporting the operations, growth, or strategic needs of ResponsiveEd and related entities, indicating a concentrated commitment to K–12 charter schooling in Texas.
Focus Areas
K–12 charter school network support in Texas (ResponsiveEd)Charter school management and operational scalingState-level affiliate funding for charter expansion (ResponsiveEd Texas)
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: very few, very large grants directed repeatedly to the same organizations (Responsive Education Solutions and its Texas affiliate), suggesting targeted, strategic support rather than broad or diversified philanthropy.
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating supportcore operating fundingflexible/general-purpose funding
Responsive Education Solutions, ResponsiveEd Texas
About Blue Learning
Blue Learning’s recent giving is defined by repeated, very large general-support grants to Responsive Education Solutions and Responsiveed Texas. The foundation’s largest recent grant was $7,300,000 in 2024 to Responsive Education Solutions for general support, followed by a $5,000,000 grant in 2025 for the same purpose. A $4,390,000 grant in 2023 to Responsiveed Texas also sat in the general-support category, showing a sustained commitment to the same charter-school system and its Texas affiliate. Across the recent record, the pattern is narrow and consistent: Blue Learning backs a single education network rather than a broad portfolio of recipients. The grants point to support for operating capacity, organizational continuity, and network-level needs within K–12 charter schooling in Texas. That concentration is reinforced by the recipient list, where the same Lewisville-based entities recur over multiple years. Blue Learning’s public profile therefore centers on concentrated, multi-year funding for one charter-school ecosystem, with funding amounts that place it in the upper tier of foundation grantmaking.
What Blue Learning Funds
Blue Learning’s grantmaking is concentrated in K–12 charter school network support. In 2024, it gave $7,300,000 to Responsive Education Solutions for general support, and in 2025 it followed with $5,000,000 to the same organization for the same purpose. The foundation also supports the state-level affiliate tied to that network: in 2023, Responsiveed Texas received $4,390,000 for general support. Another 2023 grant of $200,000 went to Responsive Education Solutions, again as general support. Taken together, the grants show a consistent emphasis on unrestricted funding for the network’s operations and related Texas affiliate rather than project-specific awards.
How Blue Learning Gives
Blue Learning’s typical grants are large: the distribution shows a 25th percentile of $200,000, a median of $4,390,000, and a 75th percentile of $5,000,000. The recent record also shows repeat support across multiple years, with the same recipient entities appearing in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The foundation is not an individual-giving funder and does not make program-related investments. Its recent awards are structured as general support, indicating flexible funding rather than restricted project grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2M
Total Assets
$36.8M
Total Revenue
$25.2M
Total Expenses
$16.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $200K and $5M, with a median of $4.4M.
25th Percentile
$200K
Median
$4.4M
75th Percentile
$5M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JAMES TAYLOR
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