DAWN Center for Independent Living

What the center reported

182Consumers served122 carried over, 60 new
2,292Information and referral contacts
$5,085,011Total income
$94,017Part B
$150,591Part C
318Goals achievedof 466 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)	$94,017
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$150,591
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$608,250
State government funds	$1,834,239
Local government funds	$140,322
Private and other	$2,257,592
Total income	$5,085,011

Eight years of reports

DAWN 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	139	$2,492,274	$254,546	$115,360	0
2017	174	$2,952,375	$261,475	$114,644	0
2018	200	$3,474,721	$50,863	$128,565	1
2019	229	$3,388,081	$94,017	$132,366	1
2020	185	$3,565,251	$94,017	$132,366	0
2021	178	$4,285,205	$94,017	$132,131	1
2022	155	$4,585,832	$94,017	$133,693	0
2023	182	$5,085,011	$94,017	$150,591	1

Consumers served, by year

2016139
2017174
2018200
2019229
2020185
2021178
2022155
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 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	$27,940	2th	8th	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	$15,991	22th	44th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	68.2%	73th	79th	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	73.5%	59th	69th	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	45th	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	0.66	40th	30th	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	53.0%	4th	7th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 8 of 15 members.
Staff with disabilities	54.0%	8th	12th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 2.6 of 4.8 FTE.
Equity index	25.5	42th	35th	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	21.7%	44th	47th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	54th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 4.8% of income; Part B varied by 58.2% (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 (2,292) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Advocacy and legal services	86	86	100.0%
IL skills training	73	73	100.0%
Other services	45	45	100.0%
Peer counseling	32	32	100.0%
Counseling and related services	31	31	100.0%
Vocational services	29	29	100.0%
Recreational services	27	27	100.0%
Transportation	27	27	100.0%
Youth transition	25	25	100.0%
Assistive technology	24	24	100.0%
Family services	14	14	100.0%
Preventive services	11	11	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	8	8	100.0%
Personal assistance	5	5	100.0%
Therapeutic treatment	3	3	100.0%
Mental restoration	2	2	100.0%
Communication services	1	1	100.0%
Physical restoration	1	1	100.0%
All services	444	444	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 86 of 86 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 24 of 24 requests filled (100.0%).
Counseling and related services: 31 of 31 requests filled (100.0%).
Family services: 14 of 14 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 73 of 73 requests filled (100.0%).
Peer counseling: 32 of 32 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	31	22	10
Communication	27	22	5
Mobility and transportation	25	20	5
Community-based living	127	103	32
Educational	22	21	1
Vocational	32	24	8
Self-care	33	24	9
Information access and technology	10	10	0
Personal resource management	113	43	70
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	1	1	0
Community and social participation	45	28	19

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	0
5 to 19	23
20 to 24	26
25 to 59	95
60 and older	38
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	116
Mental or emotional	7
Physical	22
Hearing	0
Vision	3
Multiple disabilities	32
Other	2

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with New Jersey residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 4 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	144	80.9%	55.4%	1.46
Black or African American	6	3.4%	13.3%	0.25
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0.0%	0.4%	0.00
Asian	2	1.1%	5.0%	0.22
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	0.0%	0.00
Two or more races	6	3.4%	8.3%	0.40
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	20	11.2%	17.6%	0.64

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.