Minnesota · Nonprofit
MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES
MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $117 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($117). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $117
- Net assets
- $12M
What Mdi Commercial Services does
Mission
Mdi's vision is meaningful employment opportunities for all people with disabilities and is supported through our mission to serve people with disabilities by offering inclusive employment opportunities and services. Refer to schedule o for additional detail.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
For over 60 years, mdi has accumulated a significant amount of institutional knowledge regarding how to increase the employability of people with disabilities by intentionally developing employees' skills, behaviors and work experiences in our inclusive work places, emphasizing our core values of employee first, customer focused, respect, do the right thing and empower individual ability. With this knowledge, mdi created and continues to grow and invest in our unified work program. After completing research supported by the center for appled research and educational improvement with the university of minnesota we are now creating curriculum specialized for people with disabilities. The goal of the curriculum is to help increase a person's "employability", helping mdi achieve its vision of meaningful employment for all people with disabilities, while giving opportunities for the participants to experience success. There are two main areas of focus for our current program: academy classes 1. Create the curriculum based on the research completed which will provide a diverse selection of trainings. This curriculum will build on the existing course already offered. 2. Delievery of the training through live in-person and virtual classes and through an online learning management system. Experiential learning 1. Provide virtual reality work experiences in a variety of industries to people with disabilities and deliver these experiences. 2. Offer stem experiences to help people with…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Mdi is a social enterprise business model employing both people with and without disbilities. Individuals with disabilities develop skills through training and support which allows them to gain experience and earn more than minimum wage and benefits. Employee development is inherent in our work with employees with disabilities, getting opportunities to gain skills that allow them to apply for and get promotions. Mdi also offers work and training programs for schools, county and rehabilitation agencies. Mdi's vision is meaningful employment for all people with disabilities. In 2024, unified work provided soft skills training and experiences to people with disabilities through 26 classes with 500 participants. Classes are either in person or via zoom and are effective not only for people with disabilities but also people with other barriers to employment. New service options include: 1. Launching of the unified work online learning platform so people with disabilities can have access to similiar experiences at any time, almost anywhere. 2. Offering virtual reality work experiences that provide three to five minute opportunities for people with disabilities to get experiences in a…
$26,275,741 spent$33,515,083 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,275,741.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $9.2M (−45%).
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 MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Eric Black
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $41 → $27.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MDI COMMERCIAL 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Minnesota Diversified Industries Inc · exempt
- Mdi Government Services · exempt
- Mdi Hired Hands · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MDI COMMERCIAL 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 MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES?
- MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $117 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($117). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $117 in grants to MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MDI COMMERCIAL SERVICES?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MDI COMMERCIAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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