Alabama · Nonprofit
DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO
DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO (Alabama) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,773 to it, the largest being MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION ($405,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $-8768
What Desert Island Supply Co does
Mission
The corporation is organized to provide children a writing and arts program dedicated to strengthening their writing skills and intensifying their intellectual habits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
DISCOs writing workshops SERVES more than 700 low-income students in Birmingham City Schools. DISCO published students in a variety of mediums, including a poetry anthology, poem of the week posters, and live performances.
$102,304 spentof which $10,000 as grants$20,300 earned by the program100% of program spendingSquid inc. Is discos publishing arm that creates books and posters featuring our students writing.
$233 spent0% of program spendingWorkshops/events disco hosts several events each year, including book launches, readings, concerts and workshops for adults.
$72 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,609.
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 2018 to 2019, from $71k to $150k (+111%).
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 25% · 2022 5% · 2023 9% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Elizabeth Brantley
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $90k.
3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO’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
DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
25% 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 DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 68% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 17% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — 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
42% of DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k 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
DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: 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 DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO?
- DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO (Alabama) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,773 to it, the largest being MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION ($405,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $983,773 in grants to DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO?
- MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 26 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