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Center for Independent Living

Center for Independent Living (cil) provides services, support and advocacy to enhance the rights and abilities of people with disabilities to actively participate in their communities and to live self-determined lives.

$164k
Granted FY2017
9
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$9,065
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Resources CRIL$55,264
United Seniors of OakAlameda$35,204
Lighthouse for the Blind$25,094
Bay Area Outreach BORP$11,927
Spanish Speaking Citizens$9,065
Marin Center for The Living$7,800
Lions Center For The Blind$5,904
City of El Cerrito$5,700
City of San Pablo$5,700
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Community Resources CRIL: $55k → 10%Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 10%Spanish Speaking Citizens: $9k → 10%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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Resources for Independent Living Inc: $55,264 · Human ServicesCommunity Resources for Independent Living IncLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $25,094 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIREDEast Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found: $9,065 · Human ServicesEast Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens FoundUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County: $35,204 · OtherUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda CountyBay Area Outreach and Recreation Program: $11,927 · OtherBay Area Outreach and Recreation ProgramCity of San Pablo: $11,400 · OtherCity of San PabloALAMEDA CONTRA COSTA LIONS CENTRAL COMMI: $5,904 · OtherALAMEDA CONTRA COSTA LIONS CENTRAL COMMIMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $7,800 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$89,423Other$64,435Housing & Shelter$7,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Resources for Independent Living Inc: $55,264 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County: $35,204 over 1y, 24% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $25,094 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Outreach and Recreation Program: $11,927 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEast Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found: $9,065 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $7,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALAMEDA CONTRA COSTA LIONS CENTRAL COMMI: $5,904 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Amazonsmile Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Center for Independent Living funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Independent Living. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 8 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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