New Hampshire · Nonprofit
GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING
GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING (New Hampshire) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,727 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($472,680). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Granite State Independent Living does
Mission
Founded in 1980, Granite State Independent Living (gsil) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote quality of life with independence for people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The transportation program was closed on 9/30/2025 due to increasing net losses and lack of financial viability for the program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Longterm care - the organization offers a variety of personal care service programs based on eligibility. Personal care attendants provide non-medical, hands-on assistance with activities of daily living for consumers living with disabilities. A personal care worker helps individuals bathe, dress, eat, and navigate a range of other daily tasks. In addition to providing assistance with activities of daily living, personal care workers can assist with housekeeping chores, meal preparation, and medication management. Personal care services can be delivered in either a private home, or an individual's place of employment. The organization also provides nursing facility transition services.
$17,534,145 spent$20,891,172 earned by the program84% of program spendingCommunity economic development - the organization is committed to assisting consumers with disabilities so they can function well within their community and pursue personal goals, whether through employment or earning academic credit through youth transition programs. Options are discussed through a call to information & referral program service coordinators, who help individuals set their goals. Services provided can include benefit planning, transportation, peer support, and access modification. Additional services offered may include placement, job coaching, and employment through the ticket to work program.
$3,010,696 spentof which $373,885 as grants$548,797 earned by the program14% of program spendingRem (refurbished equipment marketplace) - the organization restores pre-owned durable medical equipment and resells them at affordable prices. Rem is a wrap around service provided for gsil consumers to help provide a service that is often not covered by medicaid insurance. (website www.shoprem.com)
$224,284 spent$61,224 earned by the program1% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship
$52,770 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,821,895.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.7M to $18M (+104%).
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 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 15% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 33% · 2024 25% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% 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.
Chief executive
Deborah Ritcey
CEO
Board chair
Grant Van Der Beken
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $145k → $139k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 GRANITE STATE 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
GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 71% · 2019 39% · 2020 79% · 2021 48% · 2022 69% · 2023 65% — 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
28% of GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $542k 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
GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.5M
- Social Security Administration$1.9M
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 GRANITE STATE 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GRANITE STATE 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 GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING (New Hampshire) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,727 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($472,680). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,175,727 in grants to GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $472,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 24 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