Ohio · Nonprofit
SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,875 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($78,524). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Clevelandshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funderslocal
- Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology Incportfolio match
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.
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 50% · 2018 60% · 2019 78% · 2020 80% · 2021 83% · 2022 85% · 2023 89% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $150 → $50k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 53% · 2020 92% · 2021 79% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Clevelandshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 126 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
- Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Association of Area Agencies on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usagingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inclusa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Disability Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.6M
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 SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERVICES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,875 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($78,524). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $117,875 in grants to SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing