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INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC

EIN 39-1343425 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2025
$22,645,788
Expenses 2025
$22,723,470

Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80Z
Classification
1000
Street
540 S 1ST ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BILLIE TORRENT

    DIRECTOR (FROM JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JACCI BORCHARDT

    DIRECTOR (FROM JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELANIE PARE

    DIRECTOR (FROM JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN RAMOS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 1 related

  • BRAD HOLZ

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KAWANZA NEWSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENT WALTERS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 1 related

  • JOHN DZIEWA

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARK CIESKO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC DEGROOT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM CROWLEY

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINE BROOKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL WIERZBA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • EMILY SIIRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNE SCHWARTZ

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEVERLY WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAKEIM JACKSON-BELL

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCIA BOUCHER

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $285,404
    From this org
    $258,710
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,694
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $258,710
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,015
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,679
    Filer's total
    $285,404

  • WENDY HUOT

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $220,919
    From this org
    $209,177
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,742
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $209,177
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,293
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,449
    Filer's total
    $220,919

  • KATHY ACEVEDO

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $219,303
    From this org
    $187,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,453
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,850
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,730
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,723
    Filer's total
    $219,303

  • GERALD HAY

    DIRECTOR OF INDEPENDENT LIVING

    Total calculated
    $127,446
    From this org
    $108,338
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,108
    Hours/week
    40

  • TRACY THOMAS

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $182,638
    From this org
    $153,987
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,651
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,987
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,182
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,469
    Filer's total
    $182,638

  • JACOB NOWAK

    IT DIRECTOR/FACILITIES DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $173,615
    From this org
    $124,294
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,321
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $124,294
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,788
    Nontaxable benefits
    $42,533
    Filer's total
    $173,615

  • SCOTT CURWICK

    HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,374
    From this org
    $112,556
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,818
    Hours/week
    40 + 3 related

  • SAMANTHA HUDSON

    PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $156,735
    From this org
    $130,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,523
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,212
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,557
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,966
    Filer's total
    $156,735

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $22,645,788
    Expenses
    $22,723,470
    Contributions
    $2,144,398
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $23,992,310
    Expenses
    $24,229,748
    Contributions
    $2,011,409
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,211,248
    Expenses
    $24,937,959
    Contributions
    $2,562,570
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $26,173,789
    Expenses
    $25,802,011
    Contributions
    $1,963,627
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.