Florida · Nonprofit
COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC
COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,515,839 to it, the largest being USAGING ($2,098,414). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $954k
What Coalition for Independent Living Options Inc does
Mission
Promoting independence for people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our center offers 5 core services including independent living skills training, transition, peer support, advocacy, and information & referral services. Some of the direct services provided under these core services include, but are not limited to, application assistance for food stamps, medicaid, and medicare premium waivers; transportation assistance; healthcare access; reemployment assistance; independent living skills, job readiness skills, and social skills training; career skills camps; financial literacy training; social security advocacy; disability discrimination & fair housing advocacy; providing flu and covid-19 vaccines to hundreds of frail elderly neighbors and high-risk individuals with disabilities; program outreach for the state jppas program and voter access projects; professional trainings; technical assistance to other service providers; disaster preparedness & recovery services; and information & referral services to community resources.
$3,487,900 spentof which $440,178 as grants$2,248,461 earned by the program80% of program spendingLeap, sail, find, and senior find - cilo's learning & educational advocacy program assists students with disabilities to ensure they are getting free and appropriate public education by providing supports and accommodations needed to get the best learning experience possible. Advocates provide iep and 504 plan support, mediation between the school district personnel and parents, and due process complaint assistance. Cilo's sail program provides independent living services including various individualized skill training, benefit applications, durable medical equipment loans, peer support, disaster preparedness service, car repair and transportation assistance, healthcare access, and job/vocational assistance. Cilo's find and senior find programs provide emergency financial assistance for rent, utilities, mortgage, deposits, moving expenses, storage expenses, and reconnection fees to households with at least one member with a disability and seniors 60+ with a disability. Services include crisis management, linkages to self-sufficiency resources, and independent living skills services.
$435,987 spent10% of program spendingVocas - cilo's victim services program supports violent crime victims with disabilities sometimes caused by the crime. We help victims to understand, participate in the legal process, and coordinate support such as food, housing/shelter, clothing, locks, cameras, restraining orders, counseling, and other needs identified by the victims and their families.
$435,987 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,359,874.
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.
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 $1.8M to $1.4M (−24%).
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 93% · 2018 87% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 70% · 2024 57% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Dan Shorter
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $51k → $1.6M.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 14 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
COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 44% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
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 COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC?
- COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,515,839 to it, the largest being USAGING ($2,098,414). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,515,839 in grants to COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC?
- USAGING is the largest funder on record, with $2,098,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS 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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing