The Freedom Center for Independent Living

What the center reported

97Consumers served77 carried over, 20 new
306Information and referral contacts
$428,714Total income
$28,826Part B
$272,860Part C
16Goals achievedof 91 set
1Moved out of institutionsrelocation goals achieved
8Years reportedof 8 since 2016

Funding sources

Income by source, report year 2023Dollars received, as reported. The report does not show expenditure.
Source	Amount
Title VII Part B (through the state)	$28,826
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$272,860
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$109,757
State government funds	$0
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$17,271
Total income	$428,714

Eight years of reports

The Freedom Center for Independent Living by report yearA blank row means no report was found for that year.
Report year	Consumers served	Total income	Part B	Part C	Moved out of institutions
2016	35	$210,872	$0	$209,258	0
2017	31	$209,338	$0	$209,258	1
2018	30	$236,647	$0	$235,981	11
2019	53	$485,710	$0	$242,662	0
2020	95	$410,405	$67,743	$242,662	4
2021	136	$488,268	$0	$242,662	0
2022	110	$491,291	$67,855	$242,667	1
2023	97	$428,714	$28,826	$272,860	1

Consumers served, by year

201635
201731
201830
201953
202095
2021136
2022110
202397

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 1 of 4 by total income). 100 is the most favourable position. How each measure is built and what it cannot tell you.

Relative measures, report year 2023
Measure	Value	National percentile	Size-peer percentile	What it is
Income per consumer	$4,420	31th	17th	Total income divided by consumers served. Lower ranks higher. It is intensity, not efficiency: a center doing nursing-home transitions costs more per person than one doing mostly information.
Income per goal achieved	$26,795	12th	6th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	17.6%	14th	17th	Goals achieved as a share of goals set. A rate near 100% can mean goals are recorded only when already met.
Records closed with all goals met	26.3%	19th	19th	Share of closed consumer records closed as "completed all goals set". Recorded at exit, so a stronger signal than goal counts.
Transitions per 100 consumers	1.03	56th	55th	Relocation-from-institution goals achieved per 100 consumers. Zero is common at small centers; the percentile shows how common.
Transitions per $100,000 of Part C	0.37	28th	34th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	82.1%	16th	15th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	83.0%	74th	61th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 5 of 6 members.
Staff with disabilities	100.0%	90th	76th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 3.5 of 3.5 FTE.
Equity index	19.6	56th	64th	Index of dissimilarity between the race and ethnicity of consumers and of the state's disability population, 0 to 100. Lower ranks higher. Compared with the state, not the center's actual service area.
Income volatility	32.5%	24th	22th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	53th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 70.4% of income; Part B varied by 140.2% (coefficient of variation) across the years reported.

Services requested and received

Consumers requesting and receiving each service, report year 2023Information and referral is counted as contacts (306) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
IL skills training	409	409	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	187	39	20.9%
Other services	73	73	100.0%
Peer counseling	63	63	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	34	34	100.0%
Preventive services	20	20	100.0%
Assistive technology	18	18	100.0%
Youth transition	9	9	100.0%
Communication services	6	6	100.0%
Personal assistance	5	3	60.0%
Transportation	5	5	100.0%
Recreational services	3	3	100.0%
Vocational services	3	3	100.0%
Children's services	1	1	100.0%
Counseling and related services	1	1	100.0%
Mental restoration	1	1	100.0%
Mobility training	1	1	100.0%
All services	839	689	82.1%

Largest unmet demand

Services with ten or more requests, ordered by the share that went unfilled.

Housing and home modifications: 39 of 187 requests filled (20.9%).
Advocacy and legal services: 34 of 34 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 18 of 18 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 409 of 409 requests filled (100.0%).
Peer counseling: 63 of 63 requests filled (100.0%).
Preventive services: 20 of 20 requests filled (100.0%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Mobility and transportation	4	2	2
Community-based living	34	4	22
Educational	3	2	1
Vocational	9	0	6
Self-care	9	0	6
Information access and technology	18	5	11
Personal resource management	11	2	7
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	1	1	0
Community and social participation	2	0	1

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	0
5 to 19	2
20 to 24	1
25 to 59	55
60 and older	37
Age unavailable	2

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	7
Mental or emotional	19
Physical	25
Hearing	16
Vision	2
Multiple disabilities	15
Other	13

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Delaware residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 2 consumers of unknown race. State shares are from ACS B18101A to B18101I. A ratio above 1 means the group is a larger share of consumers than of the state's disability population.
Group	Consumers	Share of consumers	Share of state disability population	Ratio
White	49	51.6%	63.6%	0.81
Black or African American	38	40.0%	21.0%	1.91
American Indian or Alaska Native	1	1.1%	0.5%	2.22
Asian	0	0.0%	2.0%	0.00
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.00
Two or more races	3	3.2%	5.8%	0.54
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	4	4.2%	7.1%	0.59

Hispanic or Latino is an ethnicity reported alongside race in the PPR, so shares can sum to more than 100%. The comparison is with the whole state, which overstates any mismatch for a center that serves one part of it.

Data quality

Eight arithmetic checks run over every center's report. They test whether the tables agree with each other, nothing more. How often each check fails nationally.

None of the arithmetic checks failed for this report. That means the tables add up, not that the counts are verified.

What this cannot tell you

The report is unaudited self-report. Nobody verifies the consumer counts.
It reports income, not expenditure. A cost measure here is a stand-in until checked against the center's audited financial statements.
Part B and Part C outcomes are not separable. The center reports total activity.
There is no county, city or island detail in the public file.
Percentiles compare centers whose definitions of "consumer" and "goal" may differ. The data-quality row is the only signal of that in the public data.
Relative position is not impact. Nothing here supports a causal claim about what the center changed in anyone's life.

Source: Administration for Community Living, Centers for Independent Living Program Performance Report public datafiles, report years 2016 to 2023. Generated 2026-10-25.