Independence, Inc.

What the center reported

780Consumers served214 carried over, 566 new
3,692Information and referral contacts
$1,583,579Total income
$122,504Part B
$162,254Part C
792Goals achievedof 1,144 set
39Moved 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)	$122,504
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$162,254
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$0
State government funds	$150,451
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$1,148,370
Total income	$1,583,579

Eight years of reports

Independence, 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	630	$743,583	$83,366	$124,433	6
2017	728	$641,318	$85,627	$124,433	9
2018	663	$613,595	$120,219	$0	9
2019	544	$767,814	$109,243	$144,297	8
2020	562	$933,564	$180,309	$144,297	38
2021	733	$1,230,082	$0	$144,297	28
2022	597	$1,497,718	$250,372	$147,475	31
2023	780	$1,583,579	$122,504	$162,254	39

Consumers served, by year

2016630
2017728
2018663
2019544
2020562
2021733
2022597
2023780

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 3 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	$2,030	68th	74th	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	$1,999	79th	78th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	69.2%	75th	70th	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	88.6%	82th	78th	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	5.00	82th	85th	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	24.04	92th	90th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	100.0%	76th	74th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	57.0%	14th	18th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 4 of 7 members.
Staff with disabilities	77.0%	47th	58th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 10.0 of 13.0 FTE.
Equity index	11.3	84th	81th	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	36.1%	18th	18th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	56th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 18.0% of income; Part B varied by 57.7% (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 (3,692) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Youth transition	237	237	100.0%
IL skills training	197	197	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	184	184	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	119	119	100.0%
Peer counseling	72	72	100.0%
Vocational services	40	40	100.0%
Assistive technology	33	33	100.0%
Communication services	32	32	100.0%
Transportation	26	26	100.0%
Recreational services	12	12	100.0%
Children's services	7	7	100.0%
Family services	3	3	100.0%
Mobility training	2	2	100.0%
All services	964	964	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 119 of 119 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 33 of 33 requests filled (100.0%).
Communication services: 32 of 32 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 184 of 184 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 197 of 197 requests filled (100.0%).
Peer counseling: 72 of 72 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	87	65	22
Communication	5	4	0
Mobility and transportation	43	23	19
Community-based living	337	197	123
Educational	277	236	40
Vocational	69	40	27
Self-care	89	65	23
Information access and technology	31	28	1
Personal resource management	92	75	15
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	70	39	25
Community and social participation	27	20	6
Other	17	0	17

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	3
5 to 19	264
20 to 24	38
25 to 59	313
60 and older	162
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	293
Mental or emotional	205
Physical	176
Hearing	8
Vision	2
Multiple disabilities	96
Other	0

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with North Dakota 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	566	72.8%	82.3%	0.88
Black or African American	33	4.2%	1.8%	2.39
American Indian or Alaska Native	116	14.9%	6.2%	2.41
Asian	4	0.5%	1.0%	0.50
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	1	0.1%	0.1%	1.64
Two or more races	31	4.0%	5.1%	0.78
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	27	3.5%	3.4%	1.01

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.