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California Foundation for Independent Living Centers

California foundation for independent living center's mission is to increase access and equal opportunities for people with disabilities by building the capacity of independent livng centers.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$8.5MHuman Services$3.0MHousing & Shelter$538kCrime & Legal$345kEmployment$165kArts & Culture$71kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $3.0M
$115,937
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISABILITY RESOURCES CENTER$240,080
RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENCE CENTRAL VALLEY$225,893
SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER$214,480
SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$213,890
COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE$204,567
ROLLING START$203,778
DISABILITY COMMUNIITY RESOURCE CENTER$198,927
ACCESS CENTRAL COAST$198,581
INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES$168,419
FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$165,822
DISABILITY RESOURCE AGENCYINDEPENDENT LIVING$154,391
RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$116,248
INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF KERN COUNTY$115,937
TRI-COUNTY INDEPENDENT LIVING$113,317
DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL CENTER$108,927
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $9.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC: $124k → 7%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $291k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES: $185k → 9%DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL CENTER: $141k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $107k → 10%FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $379k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $182k → 12%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF KERN COUNTY: $166k → 18%DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $227k → 18%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC: $121k → 7%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $214k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES: $168k → 9%DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL CENTER: $113k → 9%FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $313k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $131k → 12%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF KERN COUNTY: $116k → 18%DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $138k → 18%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF: $107k → 7%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $210k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO & CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES: $154k → 9%DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL CENTER: $109k → 9%FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $218k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $116k → 12%DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $130k → 18%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $158k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES: $153k → 9%DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL SERVICES: $100k → 9%FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $166k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $107k → 12%DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $111k → 18%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $141k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF SOLANO AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES: $121k → 9%FREED CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $165k → 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $104k → 12%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT: $122k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF: $115k → 9%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $214k → 14%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $206k → 14%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $154k → 14%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $120k → 14%COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: $205k → 14%COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: $180k → 14%COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: $117k → 14%DISABILITY RESOURCES CENTER: $240k → 14%DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER: $207k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER: $153k → 14%DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER: $136k → 14%DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER: $97k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 26 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
3

Total granted

$16M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+101%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FREED Center for Independent Living Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +94%
  • SV
    Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +138%
  • DR
    Disability Resources Agency for Independent Living
    7× · 2019–2025 · $993k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • F
    FREED
    one grant, 2019 · $71k
  • SL
    Supported Life Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +13%
  • TO
    TEAM OF ADVOCATES FOR SPECIAL KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +101%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Disability Resource Center

To empower persons with disabilities to achieve and maintain independence in their communities. the disability resource center provides services to people of all ages with all types of disabilities, as well as to those who support them.

Human Services
2
Center for Independent Living Inc

To provide support services to persons with disabilities and promote public awareness of the needs and capabilities of disabled.

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3
Disabled Information Awareness and Living Inc

a federally mandated disability services agency providing information and referral, technical guidance, advocacy services, peer counseling, independent living skills programs, community education, and community recreation

Human Services
4
Access to Independence of San Diego Inc

Access to independence promotes full participation of people with disabilities, to help maintain, sustain, and maximize independence.

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5
Center for Independent Living

The mission of cilscpa is to empower people with disabilities to lead independent lives in their communities.

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6
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services
7
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
8
Progress Center for Independent Living

Progress center for independent living is a consumer controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agency that has been designed by individuals with disa biilities to operate within suburban cook county,…

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9
Statewide Independent Living Council

Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…

Human Services
10
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
11
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
12
Dayle Mcintosh Center for the Disabled

Access and equity, by and for people with disabilities and older adults.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Independent Living; the most unlike its peers is Disability Services & Legal Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
27/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREED Center for Independent Living Inc: $1,315,371 · Human ServicesFREED Center for Independent Living IncSilicon Valley Independent Living Center: $1,168,894 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley Independent Living CenterDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $923,170 · Human ServicesDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INCIndependent Living Resources of Solano and Contra Costa Counties Inc: $896,376 · Human ServicesIndependent Living Resources of Solano and Contra Costa Counties IncService Center for Independent Life: $843,408 · Human ServicesService Center for Independent LifeResources for Independent Living Inc: $753,588 · Human ServicesResources for Independent Living IncDisability Action Center: $753,265 · Human ServicesDisability Action CenterDisability Services & Legal Center: $608,869 · Human ServicesDisability Services & Legal CenterCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED: $539,401 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLEDCOMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: $534,516 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREECommunity Resources for Independent Living Inc: $506,551 · Human ServicesIndependent Living Center of Kern County: $434,793 · Human Services+2 more: $227,551 · Human ServicesDisability Resources Agency for Independent Living: $993,334 · OtherDisability Resources Agency for …Resources for Independence Central Valley: $860,297 · OtherResources for Independence Centr…Disability Community Resource Center: $737,800 · OtherDisability Community Resource Ce…ROLLING START INC: $613,293 · OtherROLLING START INCAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr: $566,988 · OtherAccess Central Coast formerly In…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $345,854 · OtherCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGCENTRAL COAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDET LIVING: $286,586 · OtherCENTRAL COAST CENTER FOR INDEPEN…+3 more: $183,495 · OtherMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $637,539 · Housing & ShelterTri-County Independent Living Inc: $471,522 · Civil Rights+1 more: $9,500 · Civil RightsUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County: $197,021 · HealthRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC: $194,223 · HealthGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $210,175 · Employment
Human Services$9,505,753Other$4,587,647Housing & Shelter$637,539Civil Rights$481,022Health$391,244Employment$210,175

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREED Center for Independent Living Inc: $1,315,371 over 6y, 13% of budgetSilicon Valley Independent Living Center: $1,168,894 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetDisability Resources Agency for Independent Living: $993,334 over 7y, 11% of budgetDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $923,170 over 7y, 16% of budgetIndependent Living Resources of Solano and Contra Costa Counties Inc: $896,376 over 6y, 16% of budgetResources for Independence Central Valley: $860,297 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetService Center for Independent Life: $843,408 over 6y, 15% of budgetResources for Independent Living Inc: $753,588 over 7y, 15% of budgetDisability Action Center: $753,265 over 6y, 17% of budgetDisability Community Resource Center: $737,800 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $637,539 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetROLLING START INC: $613,293 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetDisability Services & Legal Center: $608,869 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr: $566,988 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED: $539,401 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: $534,516 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCommunity Resources for Independent Living Inc: $506,551 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetTri-County Independent Living Inc: $471,522 over 7y, 15% of budgetIndependent Living Center of Kern County: $434,793 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $345,854 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCENTRAL COAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDET LIVING: $286,586 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $210,175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INC: $205,900 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County: $197,021 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC: $194,223 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER SAN FRANCISCO: $54,644 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSupported Life Institute: $21,651 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTEAM OF ADVOCATES FOR SPECIAL KIDS: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Public Health Institu…UsagingCalifornia Communicat…The Scan FoundationChristopher Reeve Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Public Health InstituteCA23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Public Health Institute · Usaging · California Communications Access Foundation Dba Ability Central · The Scan Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Foundation for Independent Living Centers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Foundation for Independent Living Centers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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