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CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,991 to it, the largest being California Foundation for Independent Living Centers ($238,396). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.0M
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$954k
Grants received
$7.8M
Net assets
9/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 135 ($2.7M) Expenses 104 ($2.6M) Net assets 73 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 125 ($2.5M) Expenses 99 ($2.5M) Net assets 85 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 453 ($9.1M) Expenses 101 ($2.5M) Net assets 507 ($7.4M)2021 Revenue 200 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 626 ($9.1M)2022 Revenue 76 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($2.8M) Net assets 552 ($8.0M)2023 Revenue 154 ($3.1M) Expenses 119 ($3.0M) Net assets 518 ($7.6M)2024 Revenue 169 ($3.4M) Expenses 146 ($3.7M) Net assets 539 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 200 ($4.0M) Expenses 174 ($4.4M) Net assets 535 ($7.8M)
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Revenue (200)Expenses (174)Net assets (535)

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 79% · 2018 71% · 2019 75% · 2020 19% · 2021 53% · 2022 129% · 2023 76% · 2024 88% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$513k
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$82k
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$22k
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$6.5M
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$1.5M
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$1.3M
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$103k
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$282k
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$374k
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $140k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cilhaas Supporting Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING raised.

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’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

CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING.

25%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 48% · 2019 56% · 2020 50% · 2021 42% · 2022 28% · 2023 72%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.

How long its funders stay

33% of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

90% of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from California funders.

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CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INDEPENDENT LIVING receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.6M on record.

Federal$6.6M
grants $6.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$6.6M

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 INDEPENDENT LIVING

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 31%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: 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.

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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 INDEPENDENT LIVING?
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,991 to it, the largest being California Foundation for Independent Living Centers ($238,396). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $953,991 in grants to CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
California Foundation for Independent Living Centers is the largest funder on record, with $238,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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