Connecticut · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC
INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,392 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($154,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $773k
What Independence Northwest Inc does
Mission
People with disabilities will have optimal self-sufficient through peer counseling, independent living skills instruction, individual systems advocacy, nursing facility youth transition, and info referral maximizing individuals capacity for independence in employment, housing, education, health care, transportation community participation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CORE Provide Peer Counseling, Independent Living Skills and Advocacy to 344 consumers with disabilities to promote independence, productivity and quality of life in the areas of employment, housing, transportation, transition from nursing facilities to community living and diversion from nursing facility placement, education, youth transition, among other self-identified goal areas. Provide information and referral to 1,050 people with disabilities, their families, other service providers and the general public. People with disabilities achieved 232 self-defined independence goals, and IN provided 3,825 hours of advocacy, education, outreach, technical assistance and collaboration.
$471,020 spent$2,091 earned by the program39% of program spendingHOPWA and PART B Under HOPWA Housing Opportunities for People Living with HI AIDS, assisted 53 people and their families to achieve their housing goal, in addition to other independent living goals, through skills instruction, advocacy, peer support and tenant based, financial rental assistance. Under Part B provided financial assistance to 56 people for purchase of goods and services that support community-based living and support independence.
$454,428 spent37% of program spendingMoney Follows the Person Aging and Disability Resource Centers Assisted people with disabilities and elders to prevent unnecessary placement in nursing facilities. Provided transition services to 183 consumers and transitioned 21 out of nursing facilities. Provided services to 172 elder veterans individually and in groups to obtain benefits and maintain community living. Provided IL Core services to 32 people who are deaf or hard of hearing, including tax preparation services through VITA. Provided education on Medicare options, other benefits and application assistance to 369 people.
$290,400 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,215,848.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $536k to $924k (+72%).
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 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Healy Eileen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $59k → $34k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 NORTHWEST 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 NORTHWEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 NORTHWEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
85% of INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.1M
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 NORTHWEST 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC?
- INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,392 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($154,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $245,392 in grants to INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC?
- WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 5 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