Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC
ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,180 to it, the largest being DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ($757,256). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $259k
What Islands of Brilliance Inc does
Mission
Islands of brilliance provides safe supportive learning environments for the autistic and neurodivergent community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foundation students are provided a 1:1 mentor who is proficient in the targeting software program supported by the expertise of iob staff. Licensed special educators oversee all aspects of the workshops and guide the interaction of both the technical skills as well as those intangibles such as social interaction and collaboration. Outcomes include increased self-confidence, self-advocacy skills and stamina.
$812,958 spent$211,206 earned by the program100% of program spendingSandbox, sandbox @, brilliant breakfast club and summer camp workshops are designed to provide opportunities for students to connect in larger group settings while they explore and create alongside peers. Designed and overseen by licensed special educators, these opportunities focus on peer to peer connections, developing social relationships and a better understanding of how to engage and interact when out in a community setting.
Digital academy programming provides students with a chance to engage in emerging technology such as 3d modeling, animation and advanced digital painting. This provides a higher level of rigor for students who are able to work with more independence, navigate a collaborative environment that includes digital whiteboards, and are able to reflect and act on feedback.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $812,958.
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 $202k to $649k (+221%).
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: 2023 50% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Mark Fairbanks
Executive director
Board chair
Kelly Scott
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $3k → $816k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 55% · 2019 65% · 2020 36% · 2021 40% · 2022 45% · 2023 70% — 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
64% of ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
91% of ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: 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 ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC?
- ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,180 to it, the largest being DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ($757,256). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,567,180 in grants to ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC?
- DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $757,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 36 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