Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,567 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,057,100). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $-10629043
What Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc does
Mission
Milwaukee center for independence, inc. (mcfi) partners with people of all abilities to advance their total health with a vision of creating healthy and hopeful communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mcfi's behavioral health services division serves adults living with serious mental illness, addiction, or chronic health conditions. Services offered include supportive case management, crisis intervention, medication management, housing, outpatient clinical services, and benefit advocacy.
$24,633,972 spentof which $35,961 as grants$24,880,060 earned by the program57% of program spendingMcfi's commercial & employment programs support people with barriers to work - including disabilities, literacy gaps, and past criminal convictions - through skill development and education, placement, and coaching. Participants in the program learn self-management skills and receive on-the-job experience in the food service and custodial industries. Mcfi supports businesses with recruitment, evaluation, training and placement services, and helps identify tasks and projects for job-seekers to increase their employability.
$14,565,508 spent$14,684,669 earned by the program33% of program spendingMcfi's childrens services offer early intervention and education programs to help children with developmental challenges overcome the odds and reach their highest potential. Services include birth-to-three in home education and specialized therapies for infants and toddlers at risk of developmental delays. Pediatric skilled nursing provides medical day care for children with complex medical needs, and wells street academy is a private school offering education to children in a setting that meets their medical needs.
$2,060,681 spent5% of program spendingOther programs at mcfi include day programming for adults with developmental delays and traumatic brain injuries, representative payee services, and other miscellaneous revenue through administrative and other departments.
$2,283,154 spent$2,404,232 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,543,315.
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.
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 $38M to $28M (−27%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 7% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 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
Elsmo Leif Sverre
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $151k.
8 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $3.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Milwaukee Center for Independence Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC’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
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 32% · 2019 20% · 2020 41% · 2021 36% · 2022 60% · 2023 50% — 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
47% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
86% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE 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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.8M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.0M
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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE 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
89% 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
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Centers for Indepencence Inc · exempt
- McFi Home Care LLC · exempt
- Ilife LLC · exempt
- Milwaukee Center for Independence Foundation Inc · exempt
- First Person Care Consultants LLC · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,567 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,057,100). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,808,567 in grants to MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,057,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing