California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE
COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,329 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS ($534,516). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $719k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Communities Actively Living Independent & Free does
Mission
Services and advocacy for people with disabilities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided assistive technology, benefits advocacy, housing assistance, information and referral and peer support for people with disabilities to enhance their capabilities.
$1,798,407 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,798,407.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+64%).
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 32% · 2018 38% · 2019 92% · 2020 84% · 2021 70% · 2022 132% · 2023 79% · 2024 77% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $40k → $164k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE’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
COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 44% · 2023 71% — 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
83% of COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE: 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 COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE?
- COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,329 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS ($534,516). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $719,329 in grants to COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS is the largest funder on record, with $534,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE 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.
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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 7 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