Independence Now, Inc.

What the center reported

182Consumers served126 carried over, 56 new
2,254Information and referral contacts
$431,181Total income
$109,719Part B
$177,654Part C
164Goals achievedof 377 set
1Moved 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)	$109,719
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$177,654
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$86,352
State government funds	$7,456
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$50,000
Total income	$431,181

Eight years of reports

Independence Now, 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	152	$184,162	$43,625	$102,203	0
2017	113	$186,840	$25,063	$115,400	10
2018	158	$218,761	$25,063	$153,353	4
2019	230	$283,181	$36,157	$157,745	0
2020	232	$348,419	$36,157	$157,745	2
2021	231	$274,482	$36,157	$157,465	4
2022	194	$278,047	$36,863	$159,326	1
2023	182	$431,181	$109,719	$177,654	1

Consumers served, by year

2016152
2017113
2018158
2019230
2020232
2021231
2022194
2023182

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 1 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	$2,369	60th	37th	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	$2,629	73th	60th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	43.5%	41th	41th	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	34.6%	26th	26th	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	0.55	40th	37th	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	0.56	35th	45th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	95.3%	35th	36th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	88.0%	81th	73th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 7 of 8 members.
Staff with disabilities	78.0%	50th	20th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 7.0 of 9.0 FTE.
Equity index	31.9	29th	36th	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	28.4%	30th	27th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	53th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 66.6% of income; Part B varied by 58.9% (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 (2,254) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Peer counseling	133	123	92.5%
IL skills training	105	102	97.1%
Other services	105	101	96.2%
Advocacy and legal services	79	76	96.2%
Housing and home modifications	69	62	89.9%
Recreational services	64	63	98.4%
Youth transition	60	58	96.7%
Preventive services	52	52	100.0%
Assistive technology	48	42	87.5%
Communication services	48	47	97.9%
Counseling and related services	39	38	97.4%
Transportation	35	34	97.1%
Family services	30	29	96.7%
Vocational services	28	27	96.4%
Mental restoration	25	25	100.0%
Physical restoration	24	24	100.0%
Personal assistance	22	18	81.8%
Therapeutic treatment	17	17	100.0%
Rehabilitation technology	7	7	100.0%
Mobility training	3	2	66.7%
Prostheses and orthotics	2	1	50.0%
All services	995	948	95.3%

Largest unmet demand

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

Personal assistance: 18 of 22 requests filled (81.8%).
Assistive technology: 42 of 48 requests filled (87.5%).
Housing and home modifications: 62 of 69 requests filled (89.9%).
Peer counseling: 123 of 133 requests filled (92.5%).
Advocacy and legal services: 76 of 79 requests filled (96.2%).
Other services: 101 of 105 requests filled (96.2%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	80	38	38
Communication	17	6	11
Mobility and transportation	14	4	10
Community-based living	66	30	32
Educational	14	6	8
Vocational	16	9	6
Self-care	41	16	20
Information access and technology	29	17	12
Personal resource management	43	26	15
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	13	1	11
Community and social participation	35	10	25
Other	9	1	8

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	0
5 to 19	17
20 to 24	22
25 to 59	96
60 and older	47
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	47
Mental or emotional	9
Physical	56
Hearing	4
Vision	6
Multiple disabilities	51
Other	9

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Maryland residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 5 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	44	24.9%	51.9%	0.48
Black or African American	99	55.9%	30.8%	1.82
American Indian or Alaska Native	2	1.1%	0.4%	2.96
Asian	9	5.1%	3.9%	1.29
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.00
Two or more races	2	1.1%	6.0%	0.19
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	21	11.9%	7.0%	1.70

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.