Illinois · Nonprofit
BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC
BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,837 to it, the largest being BLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC ($488,113). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Blue Island Citizens for Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to the discovery, pursuit, and achievement of personal growth and dignity of individuals of all ages or at risk for intellectual disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community integrated living arrangements (cila) - to provide supportive living arrangement with emphasis on independent living skills, economic self-sufficiency, and community integration for intellectual disabled persons.
$3,754,724 spent$7,513,336 earned by the program55% of program spendingIntellectual training - to provide a work situation for adults with intellectual disabilities who cannot benefit from regular employment.
$1,982,402 spent29% of program spendingThe home-based services (hbs) program is designed to enable participants to remain living in their family home or in the case of adults, a home of their own if feasible, while receiving services that support them to achieve their personal outcomes.
$225,002 spent3% of program spendingSupportive employment - to provide individuals with intellectual disabilities integrated community job opportunities on a full or part time basis. Infant day care - to provide day care for preschool children with intellectual disabilities and or children in an intellectually integrated environment. Specialized services - adult day training program to help adults reach their highest level of independence through the teaching of self-help, socialization, language, gross and fine motor development, and production skills. Other select services to assist the intellectually disabled.
$833,708 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,795,836.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.9M (+36%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 71% · 2023 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Pat Thies
Executive director
Board chair
Kim Gunaka
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $26k → $76k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Core Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 96% · 2019 61% · 2020 69% · 2021 41% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% — 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
56% of BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
99% of BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Blue Cap Foundation Inc · exempt
- Core Association Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC?
- BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,837 to it, the largest being BLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC ($488,113). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,077,837 in grants to BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC?
- BLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $488,113 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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