Mississippi · Nonprofit
ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA
ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,500 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Illuminations Center for Dyslexia does
Mission
Provides one-on-one and small group instruction for students with reading difficulties
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Illuminations Center for Dyslexia is to maximize the potential of children with language-based learning differences using highly individualized, multi-sensory, research-based instruction; empowering students to utilize their strengths to think, imagine, and create in a stimulating and supportive environment that cultivates intellectual, social, and emotional growth.
$321,926 spent$228,929 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $321,926.
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 $64k to $25k (−61%).
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 5% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Leta Palmiter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $66k.
From the IRS filings of ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA’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
ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA: 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 ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA?
- ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,500 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $202,500 in grants to ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA?
- PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing