The Ability Center

What the center reported

1,214Consumers served201 carried over, 1,013 new
1,214Information and referral contacts
$1,704,408Total income
$0Part B
$407,225Part C
3,987Goals achievedof 3,987 set
5Moved 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)	$0
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$407,225
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$1,227,253
State government funds	$0
Local government funds	$4,914
Private and other	$65,016
Total income	$1,704,408

Eight years of reports

The Ability Center 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	340	$1,165,392	$0	$312,304	4
2017	290	$1,127,430	$0	$312,304	7
2018	330	$1,241,578	$0	$352,187	4
2019	520	$1,261,393	$0	$362,158	5
2020	682	$1,713,438	$0	$362,158	8
2021	1,235	$1,408,651	$0	$362,158	7
2022	1,157	$1,581,514	$0	$370,134	5
2023	1,214	$1,704,408	$0	$407,225	5

Consumers served, by year

2016340
2017290
2018330
2019520
2020682
20211,235
20221,157
20231,214

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	$1,404	84th	87th	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	$427	97th	96th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	100.0%	100th	99th	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	93.1%	88th	85th	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	0.41	35th	40th	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	1.23	48th	41th	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	67.0%	37th	40th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 2 of 3 members.
Staff with disabilities	100.0%	90th	98th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 5.0 of 5.0 FTE.
Equity index	35.0	25th	22th	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	15.9%	67th	68th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	1	5th	8th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 23.9% of income.

Services requested and received

Consumers requesting and receiving each service, report year 2023Information and referral is counted as contacts (1,214) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Advocacy and legal services	1,214	1,214	100.0%
IL skills training	1,214	1,214	100.0%
Peer counseling	1,214	1,214	100.0%
Preventive services	1,214	1,214	100.0%
Recreational services	896	896	100.0%
Personal assistance	547	547	100.0%
Family services	523	523	100.0%
Assistive technology	213	213	100.0%
Vocational services	89	89	100.0%
Prostheses and orthotics	65	65	100.0%
Youth transition	53	53	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	40	40	100.0%
Mobility training	12	12	100.0%
Communication services	5	5	100.0%
All services	7,299	7,299	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 1,214 of 1,214 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 213 of 213 requests filled (100.0%).
Family services: 523 of 523 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 40 of 40 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 1,214 of 1,214 requests filled (100.0%).
Mobility training: 12 of 12 requests filled (100.0%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	1,214	1,214
Community-based living	1,214	1,214
Self-care	1,214	1,214
Personal resource management	109	109
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	5	5
Community and social participation	231	231

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	0
5 to 19	10
20 to 24	27
25 to 59	661
60 and older	483
Age unavailable	33

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	10
Mental or emotional	439
Physical	524
Hearing	19
Vision	17
Multiple disabilities	133
Other	72

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with New Mexico residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 11 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	356	29.6%	42.2%	0.70
Black or African American	39	3.2%	1.5%	2.19
American Indian or Alaska Native	7	0.6%	6.9%	0.08
Asian	0	0.0%	0.6%	0.00
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	0.1%	0.00
Two or more races	0	0.0%	15.3%	0.00
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	801	66.6%	33.4%	1.99

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.

Goal achievement at or above 98%. With 20 or more goals set, nearly every goal was achieved, which can mean goals are recorded as set and achieved at the same time.

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.