Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC
SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,494 to it, the largest being BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC ($1,111,517). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $625k
What Southeast Center for Independent Living Inc does
Mission
The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. This belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and operations of the southeast center for independent living. Scil provides training, information and support to help consumers achieve individual goals, experience personal growth and participate fully in community life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The southeast center for independent living (scil) operates a regional independent living center that offers five core services to any individual with a disability who lives in one of 20 towns located in southeast massachusetts. The five core services are: advocacy; information and referral; peer counseling (one-on-one); skills training, and transition and prevention. Scil provides assistance to youth transitioning to adulthood through three different programs. The scil programs are funded in large part by the massachusetts rehabilitation commission.
$1,604,814 spentof which $160,367 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,604,814.
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 2022 to 2023, from $503k to $805k (+60%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC’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. 1 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
Lisa M Pitta
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $125k → $127k.
1 of 5 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 SOUTHEAST 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
SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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 SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% — 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
98% of SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127 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.
Against its field
SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHEAST 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 SOUTHEAST 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 SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,494 to it, the largest being BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC ($1,111,517). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,193,494 in grants to SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,111,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST 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 Massachusetts. 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 5 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