Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC
MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,664 to it, the largest being BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Midstate Independent Living Choices Inc does
Mission
Milc is a non-residential, independent living center for persons with disabilities. Milc provides a variety of services for the purposes of assisting people with disabilities to live more independently in the community. Milc staff provides resources to persons with disabilities current, changing and newly emerging needs in support of their individual independent living goals. Milc is invested in providing opportunities to empower and educate persons with disabilities to make informed choices, to help them learn and to self-advocate and inform the local, state and national community about issues of concern or need. Milc supports consumer control and is mandated to have at least 51% of milc staff and at least 51% of the board of directors being persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The pas program provides assistance to adults and children with disabilities. Services are provided in the consumer's home. The help can range from simple personal needs to complicated personal cares. (services include: personal cares, supportive home cares, respite and medication set-ups)
$1,431,673 spent$1,787,254 earned by the program46% of program spendingIris program serves people with disabilities by partnering with them to help plan and direct long-term care support and services to live independent and productive lives within their community. Our services are consumer directed.
$974,987 spent$1,192,225 earned by the program31% of program spendingMilc staff provide resources to persons with disabilities current, changing or newly emerging needs in support of their individual independent living goals. Milc is invested in providing opportunities to empower and educate persons with disabilites to make informed choices, to help them learn and self advocate and inform the local, state and national community about issues of concern or need.
$682,725 spent$798,826 earned by the program22% of program spendingRepresentative payee program provides financial management services for individuals who have been identified by social security administration as being unable to manage their disability benefits.
$46,993 spent$38,654 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,136,378.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $2.8M (−22%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
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
Don Wigington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $4k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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
MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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. $8k 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
MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $468k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$468k
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 MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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 MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC?
- MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,664 to it, the largest being BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $98,664 in grants to MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC?
- BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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