Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC
BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,031 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($295,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $914k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Boston Center for Independent Living Inc does
Mission
Bcil provides services to people with disabilities to enable them to live independently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult services - provides independent living skills building and peer mentoring to disabled individuals in order to give the individuals skills for application in community living and to establish independent lives for them, and make referrals to appropriate agencies for supports and services.
$2,556,511 spent$2,110,925 earned by the program43% of program spendingPersonal care attendant services - to act as the programmatic conduit between government agencies, health plans, and consumers requiring attendants to provide physical assistance with activities of daily living and homemaking tasks.
$1,250,971 spent$1,223,773 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity integration services - commonwealth care alliance, a health plan in the one care and senior care options programs, contracts with bcil for pca services for enrollees in these programs and for coordination of long term services for those in one care, which enables persons to live more independently with needed supports and services.
$638,763 spent$742,741 earned by the program11% of program spendingAdrc - the boston aging disability resource consortium is a collaboration between bcil and three aging service access point programs and the boston age strong commission to provide coordinated services to elders and people with disabilities. Our primary effort is to provide options counseling to people in or at risk of going in a nursing home so they can live in the community. Bcil coordinates services for the adrc.
$570,999 spent$550,863 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services include youth services, community access, rehabilitation and aco community partners.
$940,274 spent$988,689 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,957,518.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $3.7M to $4.7M (+29%).
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: 2021 9% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
William Henning
Executive director
Board chair
Diana Hu
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $159k → $100k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 38% · 2019 49% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 45% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,031 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($295,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $914,031 in grants to BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $295,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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