Florida · Nonprofit
CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC
CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,675 to it, the largest being PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($204,906). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Caring and Sharing Center for Independent Living Inc does
Mission
"empowering people with disabilities" is disability achievement center's mission. It is a mission that includes advocacy, information, mentoring, training, transition and beyond to truly empower. Respect, choice and change are at the center of empowerment. Every individual is encouraged to embrace empowerment and understand that it may mean a new way of looking at things and making them happen. Fiscal, operational, advocacy and human resource policies reflect support for empowerment as agents of choice and change. All policies of the organization must advance the mission, eliminate barriers and foster inclusion. Since 1992, disability achievement center has been working to help people with disabilities in pinellas and pasco counties to remove barriers to independence and ensure equality. We have a reputation for excellence combined with consumer-focused compassionate services that help those we serve to gain or maintain independence at home, at work, and in all aspects of community lif
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Commonly known as a center for independent living, we provide the following five core independent living services: information and referral, independent living skills training, transition, peer mentoring, and individual and systemic advocacy. For fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, disability achievement center served a total of 1,427 consumers. Out of this number, an independent living plan was developed for 1,275 consumers. Disability achievement center provided 1,578 individual services to consumers and 1,625 information and referral services. In addition, the center spent over 1,419 hours providing community activities and services. Disability achievement center also provides services such as:"community education, training, and awareness for both organizations and the general public. Disability achievement center has worked closely with schools, law enforcement organizations, media, county transportation systems, county emergency operations units and organizations to prepare them to deal with accessibility and sensitivity to disability issues. "youth transition services (ages 14 to 24) for youth with disabilities. "deaf and hard of hearing services such as community education,…
$1,299,522 spentof which $276,183 as grants$23,182 earned by the program99% of program spendingOur organization participates in the sunshine health community transition and stabilization program, a partnership between sunshine health, the florida association of centers for independent living (facil), and local centers for independent living (cils) across florida. This program focuses on assisting nursing home members transitioning back to community living by providing pre- and post-transition support to promote their independence and inclusion in the community. Cil services are provided over a six-month period, with more intensive assistance at the beginning, gradually reducing as the member's needs stabilize. Sunshine health partners with cils to ensure that members receive the necessary support for a successful transition, including additional community stabilization services to foster long-term independence.
$16,566 spentof which $10,535 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,316,088.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $848k to $1.1M (+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: 2019 80% · 2020 81% · 2021 93% · 2022 86% · 2023 73% · 2024 60% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $78k → $36k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CARING AND SHARING 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
CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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
97% 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 CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 33% · 2019 50% · 2020 74% · 2021 60% · 2022 60% · 2023 55% — 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
30% of CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% 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
85% of CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CARING AND SHARING 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rcc Property Holdings Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,675 to it, the largest being PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($204,906). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $475,675 in grants to CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARING AND SHARING CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $204,906 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARING AND SHARING 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 Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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