California · Nonprofit
BRILLIANT CORNERS
BRILLIANT CORNERS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,555,860 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($28,700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $291M
What Brilliant Corners does
Mission
Provide housing and services to the most vulnerable population, especially those transitioning from (or at risk of) homelessness or institutionalization, through a variety of innovative supportive housing models.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services: we partner with local government agencies in california in which there is a housing initiative combining rent subsidies, landlord engagement, housing navigation and retention support, and intensive case management services for individuals with disabilities.
$33,572,895 spent$26,896,545 earned by the program58% of program spendingSupportive housing management: Brilliant Corners self-manages its growing portfolio of over 285 licensed residential care homes and multifamily supportive housing properties in order to ensure person-centered housing quality standards for our extremely low-income residents in communities across california.
$22,738,398 spent$23,730,138 earned by the program39% of program spendingSupportive housing development: Brilliant Corners is california's primary partner creating community-based housing for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities transitioning from institutional settings. Through the community placement program, we partner with the california department of developmental disabilities and the majority of the state's 21 nonprofit regional centers to convert single-family homes to specialized residential care facilities permanently deed-restricted for people with disabilities. Brilliant Corners has opened more than 285 homes since 2008 and has approximately 42 care homes currently in various phases of development in ca.
$1,827,865 spent$490,950 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,139,158.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $372M to $437M (+17%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 70% · 2019 85% · 2020 89% · 2021 86% · 2022 83% · 2023 47% · 2024 54% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of BRILLIANT CORNERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
William F Pickel
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $5.0M.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CORNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRILLIANT CORNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 BRILLIANT CORNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 80% · 2019 48% · 2020 75% · 2021 52% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of BRILLIANT CORNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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 BRILLIANT CORNERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BRILLIANT CORNERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BRILLIANT CORNERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRILLIANT CORNERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- A Home for Life LLC · disregarded
- Wbhc la Supportive Housing LLC · disregarded
- Avalon 1355 Bc LLC · disregarded
- Toyon Gardens LLC · disregarded
- Harbor City Bc LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRILLIANT CORNERS?
- BRILLIANT CORNERS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,555,860 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($28,700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRILLIANT CORNERS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $53,555,860 in grants to BRILLIANT CORNERS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRILLIANT CORNERS?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRILLIANT CORNERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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