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Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc

Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,727 to it, the largest being BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION INC ($1,658,320). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$962k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$714k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc does

Mission

Ability 1st, The Center for Independent Living of North Florida, is a community-based organization that provides services to people with varying disabilities. Our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live independently and enhance their quality of life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Empowering individuals with disabilities across north Florida. Ability1st, The Center for Independent Living of North Florida, is a community-based nonprofit organization serving individuals with disabilities in Leon, Gadsden, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla counties. Through advocacy, support services, information, and human connection, we help people of all abilities live independently and with dignity.

    $879,388 spent$962,126 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $879,388.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($972k) Net assets 100 ($936k)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.1M) Net assets 98 ($915k)2019 Revenue 117 ($1.2M) Expenses 126 ($1.2M) Net assets 95 ($887k)2020 Revenue 121 ($1.2M) Expenses 138 ($1.3M) Net assets 84 ($784k)2021 Revenue 149 ($1.5M) Expenses 147 ($1.4M) Net assets 95 ($885k)2022 Revenue 131 ($1.3M) Expenses 136 ($1.3M) Net assets 96 ($901k)2023 Revenue 146 ($1.5M) Expenses 149 ($1.5M) Net assets 101 ($945k)2024 Revenue 134 ($1.4M) Expenses 140 ($1.4M) Net assets 102 ($957k)2025 Revenue 94 ($962k) Expenses 124 ($1.2M) Net assets 76 ($714k)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (124)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $835k (−22%).

$993k
$967k
$938k
$1.0M
$945k
$963k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$835k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 85% · 2018 89% · 2019 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% · 2024 90% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$49k
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−$21k
’18
−$28k
’19
−$103k
’20
$99k
’21
$16k
’22
$43k
’23
$7k
’24
−$241k
’25
1.7
months of
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

Mandy Bianchi

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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No longer listed·10322112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $155k → $139k.

From the IRS filings of Center for Independent Living of North Florida 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

Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 of North Florida Inc.

63%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 90% · 2019 77% · 2020 78% · 2021 83% · 2022 90% · 2023 73% — 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

67% of Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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

99% of Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

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FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.6M to it.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.

Federal$4.0M
grants $4.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.7M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M

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 of North Florida 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
55%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • APCH Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc?
Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,727 to it, the largest being BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION INC ($1,658,320). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,648,727 in grants to Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc?
BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,658,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Center for Independent Living of North Florida 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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