Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER
FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,313 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC ($162,897). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $401k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $352k
- Net assets
- $0
What Financial Information & Service Center does
Mission
To help families and individuals improve the quality of their lives through the teaching and application of sound financial principles.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Financial Information & Service Center provides financial counseling and education to individuals. The majority of these individuals have negative net worth. About 1,655 people were served via office visits in 2020.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $257k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $106k → $0.
Left out of every figure on this page: $733k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER’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
FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 49% · 2019 86% · 2020 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER's grant income comes from Wisconsin 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.
Organizations like FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER
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
87% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Goodwill Industries of North Central Wis Inc · exempt
- Goodwill Industries Development · exempt
- Money Management Education Assoc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER: 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 FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER?
- FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,313 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC ($162,897). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $352,313 in grants to FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER?
- NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINANCIAL INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 4 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