New York · Nonprofit
Regional Center For Independent Living Inc
Regional Center For Independent Living Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,078 to it, the largest being ROCHESTERWORKS INC ($31,041). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $523k
What Regional Center For Independent Living Inc does
Mission
To empower people with disabilities to self-advocate, live independently, and enhance the quality of community life. Services and programs are of an advocacy nature, seeking to overcome the barriers faced by people with disabilities who choose to live independently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RCIL's Independent Living Program works to assist individuals with disabilities to empower themselves and maintain their own independent living in the community. Staff in this program support individuals and the community by providing core services including independent living skills training, individual and systems advocacy, peer counseling, benefits advisement, and information and referral services within the community. This program works closely with community partners and agencies to ensure that individuals with disabilities have equal access to supports and services throughout the region, ensuring that they can live without restriction and with knowledge of the rights and resources available. Continued on Schedule O.This program is funded through grant contributions totaling $741,541. A portion of the program's grants cover general and administrative expenses directly associated with this program.
$671,213 spent59% of program spendingRCIL's TRAID (Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities) Program operates a successful loan closet, supporting the community by providing durable medical equipment free of charge on a short-term basis. This equipment is available to anyone in the community to provide a safety net for equipment repairs, surgeries, accessibility, and more. Additionally, the TRAID Program provides demonstrations of equipment to individuals and organizations to help support decision making and if specific equipment would be appropriate before purchasing. This includes equipment that supports mobility, vision, and hearing and people from any and all age groups. Continued on Schedule O. This program is funded through grant contributions totaling $145,395. A portion of the program's grants cover general and administrative expenses directly associated with this program.
$121,288 spent11% of program spendingThe Peer Services Project works in conjunction with ACCES-VR to promote selfreliance, recovery, self-advocacy, self-image, and self-determination. Peers engage in providing social and emotional support, facilitating linkages to community resources, teaching essential skills in navigating systems, and self-management, which lead to enhanced community integration and employment outcomes. By co-locating with ACCES-VR, PSP staff support individuals with disabilities alongside the ACCES counselors, providing a continuity of support and collaboration, leading to better outcomes for consumers.This program is partially funded through grant contributions totaling $123,370.
$96,253 spent8% of program spendingVarious other programs for the benefit of people with disabilities.Other programs were partially funded through grant contributions totaling $245,442.
$254,244 spent$124,331 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,142,998.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.2M (+100%).
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 95% · 2018 98% · 2019 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% · 2024 99% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Bruce Darling
President/CEO
Board chair
Kenyatta DaCosta
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $400.
From the IRS filings of Regional Center For Independent Living 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
Regional Center For Independent Living Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
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 Regional Center For Independent Living Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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
73% of Regional Center For Independent Living Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding Regional Center For Independent Living Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
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 Regional Center For Independent Living 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 Regional Center For Independent Living 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 Regional Center For Independent Living Inc?
- Regional Center For Independent Living Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,078 to it, the largest being ROCHESTERWORKS INC ($31,041). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Regional Center For Independent Living Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $44,078 in grants to Regional Center For Independent Living Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Regional Center For Independent Living Inc?
- ROCHESTERWORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,041 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Regional Center For Independent Living Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 3 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