Colorado · Nonprofit
Center for Independence Inc
Center for Independence Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,742 to it, the largest being Total Community Options Foundation Inc DBA Nextfifty Initiative ($130,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Center for Independence Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Mesa County Incshared funderslocal
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centersportfolio match
- Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 84% · 2022 72% · 2023 73% · 2024 77% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Center for Independence Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $243k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Center for Independence Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
Center for Independence Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 Center for Independence Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 70% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
76% of Center for Independence Inc's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Mesa County Incshared funderslocalCO · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Association of Area Agencies on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince George's Provider Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Resource Connections Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inclusa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Center for Independence Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
- Department of Agriculture$9k
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 Center for Independence Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- The Gunnison Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Independence Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Independence Inc?
- Center for Independence Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,742 to it, the largest being Total Community Options Foundation Inc DBA Nextfifty Initiative ($130,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Independence Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $490,742 in grants to Center for Independence Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Independence Inc?
- Total Community Options Foundation Inc DBA Nextfifty Initiative is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Independence Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing