Michigan · Nonprofit
BRILLIANT DETROIT
BRILLIANT DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,572,793 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,472,350). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Brilliant Detroit does
Mission
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Brilliant Detroit partners with more than 150 organizations to bring evidence-based programming and support to families and children right in the middle of their neighborhoods. These programs are facilitated by the partner organizations or trained Brilliant Detroit staff or volunteers and focus on four key areas education, health, family support and community building. Together, these offerings support the entire familiy in a way that is coordinated to meet family needs and continuous across early childhood.
$7,240,091 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,240,091.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.0M to $14M (+107%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2023 13% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BRILLIANT DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Cynthia E Eggleton
CEO
Board chair
Jim Bellinson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $19k → $7.9M.
15 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $12M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BRILLIANT DETROIT raised.
From the IRS filings of BRILLIANT DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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 DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
54% 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 DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 69% · 2019 28% · 2020 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 10% · 2023 65% — 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
48% of BRILLIANT DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
56% of BRILLIANT DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 DETROIT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BRILLIANT DETROIT
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 1 related entity
- Brilliant Cities · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRILLIANT DETROIT: 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 DETROIT?
- BRILLIANT DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,572,793 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,472,350). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRILLIANT DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $21,572,793 in grants to BRILLIANT DETROIT, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRILLIANT DETROIT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,472,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRILLIANT DETROIT 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 127 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