Michigan · Nonprofit
Midland Center for Independent Living
Midland Center for Independent Living (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,628 to it, the largest being United Way of Midland County ($341,099). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Midland Center for Independent Living does
Mission
To promote and encourage independence for all people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independent Living - Assist people with disabilities in their ability to live and work on their own. This involves training counseling, referrals, and advocacy.
$2,827,669 spent$2,137,050 earned by the program65% of program spendingSKILLS - Work with students to transition them from high school to being on their own as adults, helping consumers get the training they might need on resumes, including job interview questions, and helping consumers who cannot manage money by themselves.
$607,090 spent$518,844 earned by the program14% of program spendingCommunity Education & Outreach - Educating the community on disability issues, training people on person centered plans (PCP) so they can facilitate a PCP with consumers, and finding help for people through an information and referral program.
$936,672 spent$947,869 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther accomplishments consist of outreach efforts to inform people with disabilities of resources available to enhance or increase independence, including but not limited to addressing social isolation, technology barriers, and emergency needs related to COVID-19.
$48,367 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,371,431.
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 $2.4M to $2.8M (+16%).
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 29% · 2018 27% · 2019 33% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% · 2024 39% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of Midland Center for Independent Living’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kelly Pelong
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $48k → $107k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Midland Center for Independent Living’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
Midland Center for Independent Living leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Midland Center for Independent Living.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 71% · 2023 38% — 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
75% of Midland Center for Independent Living's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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
81% of Midland Center for Independent Living's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Midland Center for Independent Living runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Midland Center for Independent Living receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 Midland Center for Independent Living
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Midland Center for Independent Living: 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 Midland Center for Independent Living?
- Midland Center for Independent Living (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,628 to it, the largest being United Way of Midland County ($341,099). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Midland Center for Independent Living have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $473,628 in grants to Midland Center for Independent Living, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Midland Center for Independent Living?
- United Way of Midland County is the largest funder on record, with $341,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Midland Center for Independent Living find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 8 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