Montana Independent Living Project, Inc. dba Ability Montana

What the center reported

527Consumers served357 carried over, 170 new
5,027Information and referral contacts
$10,192,368Total income
$35,531Part B
$360,818Part C
501Goals achievedof 897 set
0Moved 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)	$35,531
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$360,818
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$194,619
State government funds	$82,531
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$9,518,869
Total income	$10,192,368

Eight years of reports

Montana Independent Living Project, Inc. dba Ability Montana 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	505	$6,158,012	$32,001	$276,714	5
2017	530	$5,788,762	$39,342	$276,714	3
2018	543	$6,365,708	$42,898	$312,052	6
2019	521	$7,106,368	$36,385	$320,887	5
2020	501	$8,500,264	$32,659	$320,887	1
2021	527	$7,996,499	$29,611	$320,887	0
2022	503	$8,554,380	$30,448	$327,954	1
2023	527	$10,192,368	$35,531	$360,818	0

Consumers served, by year

2016505
2017530
2018543
2019521
2020501
2021527
2022503
2023527

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 4 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	$19,340	4th	15th	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	$20,344	16th	32th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	55.9%	55th	53th	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	7.5%	9th	11th	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	0.00	11th	9th	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	0.00	11th	9th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	89.1%	24th	32th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	67.0%	37th	44th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 6 of 9 members.
Staff with disabilities	70.0%	36th	61th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 16.0 of 23.0 FTE.
Equity index	7.3	94th	91th	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	18.5%	56th	63th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	54th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 3.9% of income; Part B varied by 12.3% (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 (5,027) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Personal assistance	397	340	85.6%
Advocacy and legal services	92	87	94.6%
Recreational services	92	79	85.9%
Other services	79	73	92.4%
Peer counseling	71	67	94.4%
Communication services	66	65	98.5%
IL skills training	54	52	96.3%
Vocational services	26	26	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	25	23	92.0%
Youth transition	18	16	88.9%
Transportation	16	10	62.5%
Physical restoration	12	7	58.3%
Assistive technology	11	9	81.8%
Counseling and related services	6	6	100.0%
Mental restoration	6	6	100.0%
Preventive services	4	4	100.0%
Mobility training	3	1	33.3%
Children's services	1	1	100.0%
Prostheses and orthotics	1	1	100.0%
Therapeutic treatment	1	1	100.0%
All services	981	874	89.1%

Largest unmet demand

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

Physical restoration: 7 of 12 requests filled (58.3%).
Transportation: 10 of 16 requests filled (62.5%).
Assistive technology: 9 of 11 requests filled (81.8%).
Personal assistance: 340 of 397 requests filled (85.6%).
Recreational services: 79 of 92 requests filled (85.9%).
Youth transition: 16 of 18 requests filled (88.9%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	80	33	39
Communication	17	8	6
Mobility and transportation	100	63	26
Community-based living	24	6	11
Educational	31	13	13
Vocational	38	11	18
Self-care	403	267	124
Information access and technology	9	6	2
Personal resource management	26	10	12
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	3	0	2
Community and social participation	133	74	55
Other	33	10	14

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	3
5 to 19	44
20 to 24	47
25 to 59	262
60 and older	171
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	85
Mental or emotional	77
Physical	182
Hearing	2
Vision	10
Multiple disabilities	135
Other	36

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Montana residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 19 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	460	90.6%	83.6%	1.08
Black or African American	2	0.4%	0.4%	0.96
American Indian or Alaska Native	20	3.9%	6.2%	0.64
Asian	3	0.6%	0.6%	1.07
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	2	0.4%	0.0%	9.56
Two or more races	10	2.0%	5.9%	0.33
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	11	2.2%	3.3%	0.66

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.