Michigan · Nonprofit
Brilliant Cities
Brilliant Cities (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AVERY DENNISON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Brilliant Cities does
Mission
To cultivate Kid Success Cities full of opportunities for young children and families. Brilliant Cities is a nationwide model that transforms houses into community hubs where children 08 are school-ready, healthy, and supported.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To cultivate Kid Success Cities full of opportunities for young children and families to have what they need for a bright future. Brilliant Cities is a nationwide program that operates as a neighborhood-powered model to ensure children 0-8 are school-ready, healthy, and supported. We do this by transforming houses into community hubs where children and families have what they need to thrive.
$431,671 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $431,671.
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
Jim Bellinson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Brilliant Cities’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
Brilliant Cities draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Brilliant Cities runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Brilliant Cities
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Brilliant Detroit · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Brilliant Cities: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Brilliant Cities?
- Brilliant Cities (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AVERY DENNISON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brilliant Cities have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to Brilliant Cities.
- Who is the largest funder of Brilliant Cities?
- AVERY DENNISON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brilliant Cities find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing