The Freedom Center, Inc.

What the center reported

231Consumers served146 carried over, 85 new
1,890Information and referral contacts
$570,391Total income
$24,491Part B
$280,238Part C
63Goals achievedof 163 set
2Moved 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)	$24,491
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$280,238
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	—
Other federal funds	$154,668
State government funds	$59,780
Local government funds	—
Private and other	$51,214
Total income	$570,391

Eight years of reports

The Freedom Center, Inc. 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	435	$371,076	$20,224	$215,765	1
2017	437	$398,210	$20,222	$215,025	0
2018	306	$473,010	$31,018	$241,904	0
2019	313	$486,122	$23,822	$248,832	2
2020	384	$555,006	$25,846	$248,832	3
2021	428	$537,291	$23,822	$248,390	4
2022	320	$474,353	$24,491	$232,441	2
2023	231	$570,391	$24,491	$280,238	2

Consumers served, by year

2016435
2017437
2018306
2019313
2020384
2021428
2022320
2023231

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	$2,469	57th	35th	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	$9,054	35th	17th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	38.7%	36th	37th	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	64.7%	49th	47th	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	0.87	51th	49th	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	0.71	41th	54th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	99.8%	52th	52th	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	89.0%	72th	44th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 8.0 of 9.0 FTE.
Equity index	16.7	67th	70th	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	13.8%	74th	73th	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 53.4% of income; Part B varied by 13.1% (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 (1,890) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Peer counseling	79	79	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	70	70	100.0%
IL skills training	54	54	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	40	39	97.5%
Vocational services	39	39	100.0%
Assistive technology	38	38	100.0%
Counseling and related services	37	37	100.0%
Youth transition	33	33	100.0%
Communication services	8	8	100.0%
Preventive services	7	7	100.0%
Recreational services	4	4	100.0%
Transportation	4	4	100.0%
Family services	3	3	100.0%
Personal assistance	1	1	100.0%
All services	417	416	99.8%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 39 of 40 requests filled (97.5%).
Assistive technology: 38 of 38 requests filled (100.0%).
Counseling and related services: 37 of 37 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 70 of 70 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 54 of 54 requests filled (100.0%).
Peer counseling: 79 of 79 requests filled (100.0%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	33	24	8
Communication	2	2	0
Mobility and transportation	1	1	0
Community-based living	33	9	16
Educational	1	0	0
Vocational	18	3	10
Self-care	5	2	2
Information access and technology	34	12	14
Personal resource management	19	7	7
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	13	2	11
Community and social participation	3	1	2
Other	1	0	1

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	0
5 to 19	28
20 to 24	19
25 to 59	114
60 and older	69
Age unavailable	1

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	55
Mental or emotional	35
Physical	90
Hearing	22
Vision	4
Multiple disabilities	25
Other	0

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Maryland 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	154	67.2%	51.9%	1.30
Black or African American	52	22.7%	30.8%	0.74
American Indian or Alaska Native	1	0.4%	0.4%	1.14
Asian	1	0.4%	3.9%	0.11
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3	1.3%	0.0%	40.50
Two or more races	6	2.6%	6.0%	0.44
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	12	5.2%	7.0%	0.75

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.