Wisconsin · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC
INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,197 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($288,444). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $330k
What Independent Living Resources Inc does
Mission
Independent living resources is committed to community diversity through advocacy, choice, and education resulting in empowerment for individuals with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independent living centers (ilcs) help people with disabilities achieve or maintain more self-sufficient and productive lives in their communities. People with disabilities are assisted in exploring alternatives to institutionalization and are encouraged to make their own decisions about how they will live. Ilcs directly provide or coordinate through referral those services which assist people in increasing their abilities to exercise control over their lives. Control over one's life means having a choice of acceptable options that minimize reliance on others in making decisions and performing every day activities. This includes managing one's own affairs, participating in day-to-day community life, and fulfilling a range of social roles.
$441,772 spent40% of program spendingIlr has negotiated a variety of contracts/agreements with funding sources such as county human services ccs & other programs, dvr, iris, clts waiver, and mcos for fee-based services. Ilr is reimbursed in different ways; by the hour, quarter hour, or completed assessment. All services are based on individual referral authorizations via referrals email.
$215,152 spent20% of program spendingIndependent living resources, inc. Is an active participant of the la crosse collaborative to end homelessness. It is made up of several community providers, funders, and homeless consumers who act as an advisory council. There is one staff who coordinates meetings of several member committees, secures funding, collects data, develops sub contracts with members, provides training, and drives the entire process to be cohesive. Ilr has two subcontracts for two outreach staff and for prevention funds. Catholic charities is the fiscal agent for all their activities and funding.
$129,011 spent12% of program spendingGrant from division of mental health & substance abuse to accomplish the following outcomes: -provide ongoing support/technical assistance to eight dhs funded peer run organizations (pro), so they meet dhs requirements. -develop statewide peer leadership through activities to support pro's resulting in statewide training. -provide timely reimbursement to consumers who participate in state sponsored meetings. Rave is a consumer run drop-in center for persons living with mental health/substance use disorders located in la crosse. The drop-in center is open monday-friday from 9-5 and is staffed by peer specialists. The staff are all persons living with a mental health/substance use disorder and have successfully completed a 48 hour peer specialist certification course. Rave provides a safe, comfortable, and accepting place to meet and visit with peers to have a cup of coffee, to read the daily newspaper to find out about community resources, to get help with job searches, to use the computers, play pool, paint a picture, do crafts, or whatever helps with personal recovery. Mental health/substance use disorder recovery is a journey of healing and transformation enabling people to live…
$313,814 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,099,749.
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 $601k to $841k (+40%).
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: 2020 59% · 2021 68% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% · 2024 73% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Sara Eckland
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $72k → $96k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES 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
INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 66% · 2021 55% · 2022 55% · 2023 75% — 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
85% of INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES 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. $172k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$450k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC?
- INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,197 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($288,444). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $522,197 in grants to INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES INC?
- GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $288,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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