California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,449 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS ($345,854). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Center for Independent Living does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core consumer services: housing access, referral & assisting technology receiving one-on-one, peer based, tailored training in necessary skills such as money and time management, health and medication maintenance, social and safety skills. Specialists matched individuals with the right assistive technology to allow them to work or live at home, and consumers received specialized home modifications (ramps, grab bars, lifts) that enable them to continue to live safely. A program to transition individuals from institutions into the community was continued.
$1,928,573 spent70% of program spendingIndependent living & quality of life - individuals received independent living skills training in health and safety, community resources, meal planning and nutrition, self-advocacy, sexual awareness, personal assistant management, household management, recreation and leisure, and money management. More than 100 seniors per year participate in the successful "living well with a disability" curriculm, learning how to manage and thrive with age-related disabilities, overcoming isolation and depression as well as new physical impairments, cil entered into a county-wide partnership with the are agency on aging (aaa) and the hayward ilc to expand resources for seniors.
$456,366 spent17% of program spendingMobility matters!-travel training & transit access-cil travel training programs have become the bay area model for teaching people with all types of disabilities how to get where they need to, quickly and affordably. Partnerships with actc, mtc and other bay area cities have expanded exponentially since the inception of the program. 40+ people were trained one-on-one to get where they want to this year and the program continues to reach more people. A partnership with bart resulted in making their web site more accessible, getting train and transit information to all their riders with disabilities (vision, hearing & physical). Cil joined other disability advocates to ensure that the planned new bart cars be built with access for riders with visual, hearing and physical limitations alongside other riders.
$367,098 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,752,037.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $13M (+451%).
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: 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.
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.
Board chair
Judith Rogers
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
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) — 16% 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 33% 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
69% 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.
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.
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
92% of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- 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
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,449 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS ($345,854). 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 $1,061,449 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 $345,854 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 21 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