Wisconsin · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC
INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $826k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Independencefirst Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC’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
INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
91% 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 INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
“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
91% of INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 153 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundationlocalportfolio matchWI · funds 149 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Trust Uw Camille a Lonstorfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Badger Meter Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wochinske Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bader Philanthropies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usinger Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Independence First Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,000 in grants to INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION 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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing