Minnesota · Nonprofit
Living Well Disability Services
Living Well Disability Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,608,234 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($384,185). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Living Well Disability Services does
Mission
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Started by families as a children's home in 1972, Living Well Disability Services continues to set the gold standard for residential and 24/7 supports for people with intellectual, physical, and developmental disabilities. Homes are located in Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Sherburne, and Wright Counties. Living Well Disability Services is leveraging technology to better support independence for people who we serve. (Continued on Schedule O)Well trained, full- and part-time staff provide exceptional individualized support so that each person can live well. Living Well Disability Services serves a broad spectrum of people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, multiple sclerosis, autism, and brain injury. These may be complicated by health issues related to aging, diabetes, Alzheimer's, medical fragility, and other chronic Health conditions. We also support people who have dual diagnoses of intellectual disabilities and mental health concerns.
$28,120,838 spent$28,088,365 earned by the program96% of program spendingCustomized Services: Living Well Disability Services provides in-home services and supports to individuals and their families, an average of 46 people per month with an average of 1,918 total hours per month of service. Customized services include licensed in-home family support (IHFS), independent living services (ILS), and semi-independent living services (SILS) for individuals in Dakota, Ramsey, Hennepin, and Washington Counties.
$1,123,858 spent$1,194,610 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,244,696.
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 2018 to 2019, from $19M to $22M (+14%).
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: 2021 3% · 2023 15% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Thomas Gillespie
President/CEO
Board chair
Anthony Derose
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $131k → $510k.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Living Well Disability Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Living Well Disability Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 Living Well Disability Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 53% · 2019 54% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of Living Well Disability Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of Living Well Disability Services's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $885k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like Living Well Disability Services
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 Minnesota
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
98%
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 2 related entities
- Dakota's Adults · exempt
- Orono Woodlands Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Living Well Disability Services: 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 Living Well Disability Services?
- Living Well Disability Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,608,234 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($384,185). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Living Well Disability Services have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,608,234 in grants to Living Well Disability Services, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Well Disability Services?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $384,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Well Disability Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing