California · Nonprofit
MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING
MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,455,166 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($905,100). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Marin Center for Indenpendent Living does
Mission
MCIL was formed to establish, maintain and operate non-profit community service centers to improve the lives of disabled individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
IL ServicesWe assisted individuals with Independent Living services to support them in maintaining independence, enhancing life skills, accessing resources and participating in their communities. Services included information and referral, Independent Living skills training, peer and cross disability support, individual & systems change advocacy, transition & diversion services.
$1,858,621 spent49% of program spendingENTERPRISEWe assisted Veterans of all ages to establish and maintain independent living on their own terms through the Home and Community based services program. Our navigators provided assistance with developing a budget for personal care services to meet their daily needs, guidance in hiring a caregiver, along with monthly/quarterly check ins. We provided navigation services to clients through CalAIM - Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports (CS) The service emphasis is on prevention and overall wellness.
$1,060,287 spent28% of program spendingYouth & Family SupportParent Advisors collaborated with parents to ensure educational access through early childhood services and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and 504 plan support, including training workshops and one-on-one IEP case conferencing. For integration-aged youth and adults, the aim is to help create and sustain an individual's independent living on their own terms.
$619,585 spent16% of program spendingCivic engagement
$225,457 spent$80,380 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,763,950.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $3.2M (+66%).
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: 2021 7% · 2023 60% · 2024 61% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Board chair
Lee Uniacke
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $122k → $390k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT 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
MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
92% 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 MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 56% · 2023 43% — 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
35% of MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
53% of MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $448k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $964k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$964k
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 MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT 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 MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING?
- MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,455,166 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($905,100). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,455,166 in grants to MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $905,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing