Coalition for Barrier-Free Living/Houston Center for Independent Living (Houston)

What the center reported

526Consumers served266 carried over, 260 new
6,020Information and referral contacts
$2,900,988Total income
$1,320,389Part B
$452,173Part C
338Goals achievedof 1,252 set
27Moved 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)	$1,320,389
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$452,173
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$414,185
State government funds	$0
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$714,241
Total income	$2,900,988

Eight years of reports

Coalition for Barrier-Free Living/Houston Center for Independent Living (Houston) 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	777	$2,085,605	$0	$327,868	188
2017	680	$2,382,814	$0	$331,289	129
2018	921	$2,408,311	$1,152,830	$377,408	144
2019	731	$2,236,732	$961,562	$392,047	111
2020	596	$2,266,588	$1,173,589	$392,803	93
2021	560	$2,711,100	$1,396,164	$395,117	69
2022	411	$2,735,358	$1,331,288	$408,852	68
2023	526	$2,900,988	$1,320,389	$452,173	27

Consumers served, by year

2016777
2017680
2018921
2019731
2020596
2021560
2022411
2023526

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	$5,515	23th	55th	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	$8,583	36th	59th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	27.0%	23th	23th	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	68.4%	53th	63th	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	5.13	82th	84th	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	5.97	75th	66th	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	67.0%	37th	44th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 6 of 9 members.
Staff with disabilities	82.0%	59th	79th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 18.0 of 22.0 FTE.
Equity index	62.4	4th	2th	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	10.8%	87th	90th	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 61.1% of income; Part B varied by 59.3% (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 (6,020) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Other services	578	578	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	526	526	100.0%
Communication services	373	373	100.0%
Peer counseling	333	333	100.0%
Vocational services	328	328	100.0%
Assistive technology	321	321	100.0%
IL skills training	284	284	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	197	197	100.0%
Preventive services	143	143	100.0%
Recreational services	83	83	100.0%
Transportation	56	56	100.0%
Mobility training	5	5	100.0%
Personal assistance	5	5	100.0%
Prostheses and orthotics	4	4	100.0%
Children's services	2	2	100.0%
Family services	2	2	100.0%
Youth transition	2	2	100.0%
All services	3,242	3,242	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 526 of 526 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 321 of 321 requests filled (100.0%).
Communication services: 373 of 373 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 197 of 197 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 284 of 284 requests filled (100.0%).
Peer counseling: 333 of 333 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	262	51	182
Communication	14	1	7
Mobility and transportation	64	17	31
Community-based living	221	80	107
Educational	126	30	82
Vocational	110	29	55
Self-care	109	37	59
Information access and technology	213	38	158
Personal resource management	36	13	16
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	27	27	0
Community and social participation	63	13	32
Other	7	2	5

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	2
5 to 19	18
20 to 24	26
25 to 59	315
60 and older	165
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	43
Mental or emotional	35
Physical	180
Hearing	110
Vision	62
Multiple disabilities	89
Other	7

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Texas residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 0 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	126	24.0%	45.8%	0.52
Black or African American	294	55.9%	10.8%	5.15
American Indian or Alaska Native	3	0.6%	0.6%	0.97
Asian	10	1.9%	2.3%	0.82
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	92	17.5%	0.1%	177.98
Two or more races	0	0.0%	13.7%	0.00
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	1	0.2%	26.7%	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.