FREED Center for Independent Living

What the center reported

1,222Consumers served468 carried over, 754 new
4,647Information and referral contacts
$2,204,628Total income
$128,199Part B
$88,782Part C
644Goals achievedof 1,054 set
80Moved 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)	$128,199
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$88,782
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$284,062
State government funds	$1,316,402
Local government funds	$70,752
Private and other	$316,432
Total income	$2,204,628

Eight years of reports

FREED 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	767	$940,966	$0	$68,966	8
2017	1,044	$1,035,598	$190,830	$69,757	6
2018	899	$1,248,740	$147,852	$78,556	9
2019	899	$1,251,099	$147,852	$80,915	9
2020	1,138	$1,972,000	$71,983	$80,915	41
2021	1,287	$1,771,710	$109,035	$80,771	54
2022	1,155	$2,235,948	$73,976	$81,726	69
2023	1,222	$2,204,628	$128,199	$88,782	80

Consumers served, by year

2016767
20171,044
2018899
2019899
20201,138
20211,287
20221,155
20231,222

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	$1,804	75th	94th	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	$3,423	67th	91th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	61.1%	63th	62th	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	67.8%	52th	62th	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	6.55	87th	88th	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	90.11	99th	96th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	100.0%	76th	78th	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%. 4 of 6 members.
Staff with disabilities	56.0%	12th	19th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 9.6 of 17.1 FTE.
Equity index	42.6	15th	9th	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	31.1%	26th	36th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	1	5th	5th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 9.8% of income; Part B varied by 51.0% (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 (4,647) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Assistive technology	640	640	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	283	283	100.0%
IL skills training	230	230	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	179	179	100.0%
Peer counseling	149	149	100.0%
Communication services	128	128	100.0%
Counseling and related services	106	106	100.0%
Recreational services	60	60	100.0%
Children's services	51	51	100.0%
Youth transition	50	50	100.0%
Transportation	37	37	100.0%
Vocational services	35	35	100.0%
Family services	21	21	100.0%
Rehabilitation technology	12	12	100.0%
Personal assistance	5	5	100.0%
Mobility training	3	3	100.0%
All services	1,989	1,989	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 179 of 179 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 640 of 640 requests filled (100.0%).
Children's services: 51 of 51 requests filled (100.0%).
Communication services: 128 of 128 requests filled (100.0%).
Counseling and related services: 106 of 106 requests filled (100.0%).
Family services: 21 of 21 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	42	27	29
Communication	33	7	30
Mobility and transportation	176	127	59
Community-based living	153	135	163
Educational	0	1	0
Vocational	8	0	5
Self-care	195	130	91
Information access and technology	191	59	137
Personal resource management	53	39	45
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	126	80	67
Community and social participation	77	39	69

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	23
5 to 19	30
20 to 24	16
25 to 59	326
60 and older	813
Age unavailable	14

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	99
Mental or emotional	132
Physical	771
Hearing	4
Vision	15
Multiple disabilities	149
Other	52

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with California residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 69 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	979	84.9%	42.3%	2.01
Black or African American	10	0.9%	6.4%	0.14
American Indian or Alaska Native	14	1.2%	1.2%	1.01
Asian	18	1.6%	10.2%	0.15
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4	0.3%	0.4%	0.98
Two or more races	41	3.6%	11.9%	0.30
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	87	7.5%	27.6%	0.27

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.

Goals achieved exceed goals set. For at least one goal category, more goals were achieved than were set.

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.