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ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC

EIN 47-1249195 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$1,025,404
Expenses 2024
$1,132,222

Program services were 71.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G84
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 774

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE PROVIDES SAFE SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE AUTISTIC AND NEURODIVERGENT COMMUNITY.

  • 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.

    Expenses $812,958 · Revenue $211,206

  • SANDBOX, 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.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MARK FAIRBANKS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $79,875
    From this org
    $79,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KELLY SCOTT

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIA VENTO

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARGARET FAIRBANKS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $79,875
    From this org
    $79,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • NYDIA MAURAS-JONES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE POWLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN DEPIES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM LOCATELLI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CORY AMPE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR STACIA THOMPSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SIMMI URBANEK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRENICE FERGUSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,025,404
    Expenses
    $1,132,222
    Contributions
    $813,887
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,028,208
    Expenses
    $971,494
    Contributions
    $866,084
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $738,998
    Expenses
    $699,923
    Contributions
    $549,622
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $602,904
    Expenses
    $560,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,963

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,693
    Expenses
    $328,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,392

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $260,053
    Expenses
    $217,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,515

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $145,984
    Expenses
    $140,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,237

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015
Principal officer
Margaret Fairbanks
Mailing address
415 E Menomonee StreetMilwaukee WI 53202
Website
islandsofbrilliance.opg

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.