Texas · Nonprofit
THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,203 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($160,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $800k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Association for Independent Living does
Mission
To strenghten the independence of young adults with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities through life skills education, vocationalguidance, community integration and spiritual growth in a supportive livingenvironment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization can provide housing for up to thirty-four young adults.the dormitory can accommodate sixteen students. Nine separate level 2 apartments can accommodate up to eighteen students. Double occupancy is acceptable if the students choose roommates. Level 3 apartments can vary, as they are not owned by afil but received case management services from afil. We address social skills, routines, moderation with regard to electronic device usage...and other situations which will help the student with job readiness and appropriate interdependence and self-confidence. This stratgey allows incoming residents more time to be observed by staff and an opportunity to enhance their overall skills prior to admittance in the afil way program.
$500,398 spent$352,333 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $500,398.
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 2024 to 2025, from $654k to $2.0M (+203%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Sarah Causey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $50k → $150k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 THE ASSOCIATION 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
THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 58% · 2019 33% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 21% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ASSOCIATION 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 Texas
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ASSOCIATION 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 THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,203 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($160,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $800,203 in grants to THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- The Rees-Jones Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing