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

What the center reported

338Consumers served215 carried over, 123 new
1,117Information and referral contacts
$364,265Total income
$0Part B
$272,194Part C
115Goals achievedof 487 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)	$272,194
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$88,819
State government funds	$0
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$3,252
Total income	$364,265

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	220	$212,937	$0	$197,366	2
2017	205	$213,554	$0	$199,426	1
2018	202	$215,853	$0	$212,437	5
2019	202	$240,725	$0	$236,000	0
2020	192	$238,966	$0	$236,455	7
2021	227	$239,527	$0	$237,848	1
2022	239	$280,436	$0	$246,116	4
2023	338	$364,265	$0	$272,194	5

Consumers served, by year

2016220
2017205
2018202
2019202
2020192
2021227
2022239
2023338

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	$1,078	89th	73th	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	$3,168	69th	53th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	23.6%	19th	22th	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	58.8%	45th	41th	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	1.48	64th	62th	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	1.84	55th	68th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	100.0%	76th	77th	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	24th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 6 of 9 members.
Staff with disabilities	100.0%	90th	76th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 3.0 of 3.0 FTE.
Equity index	27.3	37th	45th	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	19.0%	53th	49th	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 74.7% of income.

Services requested and received

Consumers requesting and receiving each service, report year 2023Information and referral is counted as contacts (1,117) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Advocacy and legal services	338	338	100.0%
IL skills training	338	338	100.0%
Peer counseling	338	338	100.0%
Vocational services	338	338	100.0%
Other services	281	281	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	261	261	100.0%
Communication services	175	175	100.0%
Assistive technology	170	170	100.0%
Recreational services	164	164	100.0%
Transportation	81	81	100.0%
Mobility training	44	44	100.0%
Personal assistance	24	24	100.0%
Physical restoration	23	23	100.0%
Counseling and related services	12	12	100.0%
Preventive services	10	10	100.0%
Prostheses and orthotics	6	6	100.0%
Children's services	5	5	100.0%
Youth transition	4	4	100.0%
Rehabilitation technology	2	2	100.0%
Family services	1	1	100.0%
All services	2,615	2,615	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 338 of 338 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 170 of 170 requests filled (100.0%).
Communication services: 175 of 175 requests filled (100.0%).
Counseling and related services: 12 of 12 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 261 of 261 requests filled (100.0%).
IL skills training: 338 of 338 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	16	7	4
Communication	1	0	0
Mobility and transportation	31	5	5
Community-based living	30	10	4
Educational	56	4	9
Vocational	16	3	1
Self-care	36	9	1
Information access and technology	112	12	36
Personal resource management	156	49	36
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	5	5	0
Community and social participation	27	10	2
Other	1	1	0

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	2
5 to 19	12
20 to 24	15
25 to 59	166
60 and older	143
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	31
Mental or emotional	58
Physical	125
Hearing	15
Vision	17
Multiple disabilities	91
Other	1

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	146	43.2%	45.8%	0.94
Black or African American	129	38.2%	10.8%	3.52
American Indian or Alaska Native	2	0.6%	0.6%	1.00
Asian	2	0.6%	2.3%	0.26
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	0.1%	0.00
Two or more races	0	0.0%	13.7%	0.00
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	59	17.5%	26.7%	0.65

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.