Illinois · Nonprofit
PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,346 to it, the largest being WOODS FUND OF CHICAGO ($170,789). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $216k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Progress Center for Independent Living does
Mission
Progress Center for Independent Living is a consumer controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agency that has been designed by individuals with disa biilities to operate within suburban cook county, illinois to provide an array of independent living services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Services to promote and practice independent living for people with disabilities including information referral skills, training, peersupport and advocacy.
$1,124,475 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,124,475.
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 2021 to 2022, from $814k to $1.0M (+25%).
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 91% · 2019 81% · 2020 80% · 2021 84% · 2022 86% · 2023 79% · 2024 72% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $53k.
1 of 4 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 PROGRESS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
100% of PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150 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 PROGRESS 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
95% 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 PROGRESS 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 PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,346 to it, the largest being WOODS FUND OF CHICAGO ($170,789). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $216,346 in grants to PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROGRESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- WOODS FUND OF CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $170,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROGRESS 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 4 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