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INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC

INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,010 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Health Officers Association Inc ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$12k
Grants received
$830k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($389k)2018 Revenue 92 ($1.5M) Expenses 99 ($1.5M) Net assets 101 ($391k)2019 Revenue 102 ($1.7M) Expenses 106 ($1.6M) Net assets 119 ($462k)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.9M) Expenses 120 ($1.8M) Net assets 126 ($489k)2021 Revenue 111 ($1.8M) Expenses 112 ($1.7M) Net assets 160 ($623k)2022 Revenue 119 ($2.0M) Expenses 123 ($1.9M) Net assets 180 ($701k)2023 Revenue 130 ($2.2M) Expenses 131 ($2.0M) Net assets 218 ($848k)2024 Revenue 139 ($2.3M) Expenses 152 ($2.3M) Net assets 214 ($830k)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (152)Net assets (214)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$124k
’17
$2k
’18
$71k
’19
$27k
’20
$134k
’21
$78k
’22
$147k
’23
−$18k
’24
2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $5.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 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 INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES 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

INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

58% 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 INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.6M on record.

State$14.6M
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$9.8M
  • (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$4.7M
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$45k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$12k

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 INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Boston Center for Independent Living Inc85%Stavros Center for Independent Living Inc84%Advocates Inc84%Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc83%Massachusetts Aging Access Association Inc83%Lifestream Inc83%Mental Health Association Inc83%Home Care Aide Foundation Inc82%

Nationally

Independence Association Inc87%Alpha One86%Ability Resources Inc85%Independent Living Inc85%Disabled Citizens Alliance for Independence Foundation Inc85%The Independent Living Center Inc85%Boston Center for Independent Living Inc85%Independent Living Association84%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC?
INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,010 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Health Officers Association Inc ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,010 in grants to INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC?
Massachusetts Health Officers Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing