Developmental Disabilities Information Service Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391156302
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mount Pleasant, WI, USA
Phone
2626372707
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,964,259
Expenses
$3,836,869
Assets
$2,985,412
Liabilities
$847,271

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBIN KREINES (PRESIDENT)
  • TIM FALENDYSZ (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER KIESLER (DIRECTOR): $183,359 total reported compensation
  • TINA COATES (FISCAL MANAGER): $154,897 total reported compensation
  • CONSTANCE MCDONALD (CASE MANAGEMENT): $128,188 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Developmental disabilities information service, inc. (ddis) services and supports racine county individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through assessment, education and advocacy. Individualized services support qualifying individuals to develop life skills and to reside in the most appropriate setting to meet their needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

The children's long-term support (clts) medicaid waiver program provides case management and funding to children with long term physical, developmental and mental health disabilities. The child must meet the state screening process to be eligible for this program. The minimum requirements regarding the provision of support and service coordination are monthly collateral contact and face-to-face participant contact every 6 months with at least one of the face-to-face contacts being completed at the participant's place of residence. More frequent contact may be required in response to individual needs identified in assessments or prior critical incidents to assure health and safety. Ddis provided 35,741.50 units of service to 933 clients during the year.the children's long-term support (clts) medicaid waiver program includes a specific waiver for autism treatment services. The in-home autism treatment service was moved from a medicaid waiver service to a medicaid card service in 2017. The children on that specific autism waiver were allowed to transition into the general waiver and receive those defined services, but the aba in home therapy would now be paid for through the medicaid card and monitored by medicaid. The number of children listed under the autism waiver will gradually reduce to zero as they age out, move out of state or are found no longer eligible for any waiver service. This will complete the elimination of the autism waiver and leave only one clts waiver for all disabilities. Ddis provided 1,002.25 units of service to 27 clients during the year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.