The Center for Independent Living of North Florida, Inc. DBA Ability1st

What the center reported

985Consumers served643 carried over, 342 new
6Information and referral contacts
$1,188,327Total income
$151,727Part B
$283,627Part C
493Goals achievedof 1,200 set
40Moved 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)	$151,727
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$283,627
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$85,796
Other federal funds	$90,870
State government funds	$265,021
Local government funds	$192,575
Private and other	$118,711
Total income	$1,188,327

Eight years of reports

The Center for Independent Living of North Florida, Inc. DBA Ability1st 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	1,431	$1,541,897	$15,599	$205,746	0
2017	1,062	$1,663,655	$46,781	$207,893	4
2018	1,039	$1,810,913	$57,854	$237,419	7
2019	952	$1,870,500	$72,298	$247,158	4
2020	937	$1,883,160	$150,994	$247,872	0
2021	1,360	$1,942,470	$160,978	$248,871	0
2022	892	$2,105,311	$159,263	$257,348	0
2023	985	$1,188,327	$151,727	$283,627	40

Consumers served, by year

20161,431
20171,062
20181,039
2019952
2020937
20211,360
2022892
2023985

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	$1,206	87th	90th	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	$2,410	75th	70th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	41.1%	39th	35th	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	88.1%	80th	77th	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	4.06	79th	80th	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	14.10	84th	82th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	54.1%	4th	6th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	56.0%	9th	11th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 5 of 9 members.
Staff with disabilities	64.0%	25th	28th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 7.0 of 11.0 FTE.
Equity index	54.9	8th	6th	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	15.2%	70th	73th	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 43.9% of income; Part B varied by 54.8% (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 (6) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Preventive services	477	15	3.1%
IL skills training	357	280	78.4%
Rehabilitation technology	354	280	79.1%
Housing and home modifications	234	234	100.0%
Transportation	36	3	8.3%
Other services	28	0	0.0%
Youth transition	13	12	92.3%
Advocacy and legal services	12	2	16.7%
Counseling and related services	7	0	0.0%
Assistive technology	4	0	0.0%
Communication services	3	0	0.0%
Peer counseling	2	0	0.0%
Vocational services	2	0	0.0%
Personal assistance	1	1	100.0%
All services	1,530	827	54.1%

Largest unmet demand

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

Other services: 0 of 28 requests filled (0.0%).
Preventive services: 15 of 477 requests filled (3.1%).
Transportation: 3 of 36 requests filled (8.3%).
Advocacy and legal services: 2 of 12 requests filled (16.7%).
IL skills training: 280 of 357 requests filled (78.4%).
Rehabilitation technology: 280 of 354 requests filled (79.1%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	7	1	6
Communication	3	0	3
Mobility and transportation	371	280	91
Community-based living	232	152	80
Educational	1	1	0
Vocational	3	0	3
Self-care	487	14	473
Information access and technology	1	0	1
Personal resource management	14	2	12
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	54	40	14
Community and social participation	3	1	2
Other	24	2	22

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	2
5 to 19	9
20 to 24	10
25 to 59	314
60 and older	650
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	47
Mental or emotional	97
Physical	445
Hearing	2
Vision	7
Multiple disabilities	301
Other	86

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Florida residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 12 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	321	33.0%	57.4%	0.58
Black or African American	640	65.8%	11.7%	5.61
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0.0%	0.3%	0.00
Asian	2	0.2%	1.6%	0.13
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	9	0.9%	0.0%	21.03
Two or more races	0	0.0%	10.9%	0.00
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	1	0.1%	18.0%	0.01

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.