Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC
VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,016 to it, the largest being USAGING ($1,021,858). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Vermont Center for Independent Living Inc does
Mission
To empower vermonters with disabilities, deaf vermonters, and others to tear down the physical, communication, and attitudinal barriers that keep us from realizing our full human potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independent living resources - programs include home access program (home modifications), sue williams freedom fund (swff) (assistive technology) and meals on wheels.
$2,425,900 spentof which $1,162,357 as grants75% of program spendingThe peer advocacy counseling program engages people with disabilities in community efforts to promote changes in programs, policies, and laws that recognize the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
$688,096 spent21% of program spendingAdvocacy programs for people with disabilities
$72,200 spent2% of program spendingOther programs for people with disabilities
$28,349 spent$10 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,214,545.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+41%).
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 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 83% · 2024 99% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of VERMONT 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. 0 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $528k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 93% · 2022 77% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.2M
- Department of Agriculture$425k
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 VERMONT 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,016 to it, the largest being USAGING ($1,021,858). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,206,016 in grants to VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC?
- USAGING is the largest funder on record, with $1,021,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT 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 Vermont. 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 11 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