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LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I

LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being GODDARD HEALTH SERVICES INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$68k
Net assets
$27k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Living Independently for Equality I does

Mission

Life center provides services for physic

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. During the year the life center provided entertainment, transportation, activities and meals to about 70 physically and disabled adults in brockton, ma and surronding communities.

    $17,614 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,614.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2018 Revenue 85 ($76k) Expenses 104 ($72k) Net assets 103 ($130k)2019 Revenue 75 ($67k) Expenses 114 ($79k) Net assets 94 ($118k)2020 Revenue 28 ($25k) Expenses 52 ($36k) Net assets 85 ($107k)2021 Revenue 42 ($38k) Expenses 64 ($44k) Net assets 79 ($100k)2022 Revenue 56 ($50k) Expenses 107 ($74k) Net assets 60 ($76k)2023 Revenue 62 ($55k) Expenses 108 ($75k) Net assets 45 ($57k)2024 Revenue 71 ($63k) Expenses 105 ($73k) Net assets 37 ($47k)2025 Revenue 56 ($50k) Expenses 101 ($70k) Net assets 21 ($27k)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (101)Net assets (21)

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 $100k to $76k (−24%).

$126k
$130k
$118k
$107k
$100k
$76k
$57k
$47k
$27k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$4k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$11k
’20
−$7k
’21
−$24k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$10k
’24
−$20k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Cindy Discipio

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $8k.

Funder
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total
$28k
funders
2
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I’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

LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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

41% 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 LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $222k on record.

State$222k
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Top programs
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$219k
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k

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 LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I?
LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being GODDARD HEALTH SERVICES INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $67,500 in grants to LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I?
GODDARD HEALTH SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR EQUALITY I 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.

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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 2 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