Illinois · Nonprofit
NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($70). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $70
- Net assets
- $559k
What Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living does
Mission
The mission of nicil is the empowerment of persons with disabilities. Nicil will promote and practice independent living philosophy throughout all of its activities and programing. The center will provide direct & indirect services to and on behalf of people with disabilities. Nicil will promote public awareness of issues facing persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independent living program- this is an ongoing program and served over 400 people. There are four core services provided through the independent living program: 1) advocacy - involves the empowerment of individuals and the education of the community at large. Nicil encourages the adoption of public policies which work on behalf of people with disabilities, recognize and protect their rights and promote their independence and advancement as citizens. 2) peer support - provides the opportunity for persons with disabilities to share experiences, concerns, strategies, and problem solving techniques. Peers are brought together to establish a relationship which allows the more experienced person to provide information and support and serve as a positive role model to the person whose disability is more recent. 3) information on referral - nicil is available to respond to specific disability related questions and to increase the knowledge about disabiiity issues and resources in the community. A comprehensive resource library is maintained and materials can be utilized by the public. 4) independent living skills training - training is provided to persons with disabilities enabling them…
$334,652 spent77% of program spendingEducation/outreach - provide education to individuals with disabilities regarding public health, heath and wellness education and information, counseling, assistance with accessing health care services
$44,853 spent10% of program spendingPersonal assistant program - this is an ongoing program and served over 200 people. A personal assistant is someone who works for a person with a disability, a consumer, with the purpose of empowering that person to live independently in the community. The personal assistant's role is to assist the consumer in completing activities of daily living based on his or her individual needs. Nicil trains & maintains a list of people who would like to become personal assistants for people with disabilities. Nicil's personal assistant coordinator conducts initial interviews of people interested in the position and hosts an orientation that all personal assistants must attent prior to being placed on nicil's referral list. A computer database is maintained daily and used to generate the referral lists of personal assistants to give to consumers upon request. The personal assistant coordinator also provides further training to personal assistants and offers assistance to consumers with interviewing, hiring, and communicating effectively with his or her personal assistant.
$56,775 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $436,280.
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 2019 to 2020, from $410k to $467k (+14%).
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 91% · 2018 97% · 2019 90% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% · 2024 72% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42 → $11.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR 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 NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $70 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($70). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $70 in grants to NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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