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MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC

MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,646,253 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($3,991,053). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$163k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$104M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Milwaukee Center for Independence Foundation Inc does

Mission

The milwaukee center for independence foundation, inc. (foundation) contributes to its affiliated organizations through fundraising for operations and capital needs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Foundation is responsible to help grow and sustain its affiliated organizations financially, and to communicate the agency's mission through supportive relationships with donors, foundations, and corporations, and organizing and motivating groups of executives, community influencers, and other stakeholders to help achieve agency goals.

    $952,274 spentof which $948,939 as grants$16,658 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $952,274.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($207k) Net assets 100 ($646k)2020 Revenue 239 ($9.0M) Expenses 425 ($879k) Net assets 1302 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 1230 ($46M) Expenses 247 ($511k) Net assets 9494 ($61M)2022 Revenue 396 ($15M) Expenses 164 ($339k) Net assets 9998 ($65M)2023 Revenue 381 ($14M) Expenses 461 ($952k) Net assets 14217 ($92M)2024 Revenue 4 ($163k) Expenses 114 ($235k) Net assets 16150 ($104M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (4)Expenses (114)Net assets (16150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.4M to $61M (+629%).

$804k
$8.4M
$61M
$65M
$92M
$104M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.6M
’19
$8.1M
’20
$46M
’21
$15M
’22
$13M
’23
−$72k
’24
49
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

201920202021202220232024
Listed688976
Joined·+4+8+1+0+2
No longer listed·28023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $163k → $28k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $80M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Centers for Independence Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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

MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC.

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — broadly stable.

“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

86% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC'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. Of the $655k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
NY
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−44% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve48.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−47% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

16%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc · exempt
  • McFi Home Care LLC · exempt
  • Ilife LLC · exempt
  • First Person Care Consultants LLC · exempt
  • Centers for Independence Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC?
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,646,253 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($3,991,053). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,646,253 in grants to MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC?
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,991,053 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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