FREED Center for Independent Living

What the center reported

1,235Consumers served815 carried over, 420 new
3,069Information and referral contacts
$748,638Total income
$0Part B
$180,199Part C
497Goals achievedof 595 set
70Moved 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)	$180,199
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$330,344
State government funds	$236,659
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$1,436
Total income	$748,638

Eight years of reports

FREED 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	767	$232,001	$0	$141,524	4
2017	740	$251,884	$0	$141,583	2
2018	682	$310,859	$0	$159,443	1
2019	682	$315,648	$0	$164,232	1
2020	711	$675,998	$0	$164,232	11
2021	1,038	$581,892	$0	$163,940	17
2022	1,146	$869,698	$0	$165,878	30
2023	1,235	$748,638	$0	$180,199	70

Consumers served, by year

2016767
2017740
2018682
2019682
2020711
20211,038
20221,146
20231,235

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 2 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	$606	98th	97th	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	$1,506	84th	88th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	83.5%	88th	90th	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	60.4%	46th	45th	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	5.67	83th	82th	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	38.85	96th	99th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	100.0%	76th	76th	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	39th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 4 of 6 members.
Staff with disabilities	51.0%	4th	6th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 7.4 of 14.5 FTE.
Equity index	24.0	46th	51th	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	47.0%	10th	8th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	1	5th	3th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 24.1% of income.

Services requested and received

Consumers requesting and receiving each service, report year 2023Information and referral is counted as contacts (3,069) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Assistive technology	315	315	100.0%
IL skills training	201	201	100.0%
Advocacy and legal services	122	122	100.0%
Housing and home modifications	116	116	100.0%
Transportation	108	108	100.0%
Personal assistance	43	43	100.0%
Children's services	38	38	100.0%
Counseling and related services	38	38	100.0%
Peer counseling	36	36	100.0%
Youth transition	36	36	100.0%
Communication services	32	32	100.0%
Vocational services	4	4	100.0%
Mobility training	1	1	100.0%
Rehabilitation technology	1	1	100.0%
All services	1,091	1,091	100.0%

Largest unmet demand

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

Advocacy and legal services: 122 of 122 requests filled (100.0%).
Assistive technology: 315 of 315 requests filled (100.0%).
Children's services: 38 of 38 requests filled (100.0%).
Communication services: 32 of 32 requests filled (100.0%).
Counseling and related services: 38 of 38 requests filled (100.0%).
Housing and home modifications: 116 of 116 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	4	11	8
Communication	19	12	15
Mobility and transportation	87	127	134
Community-based living	278	160	355
Vocational	1	0	1
Self-care	36	90	93
Information access and technology	12	4	15
Personal resource management	4	2	3
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	133	70	77
Community and social participation	21	21	22

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	11
5 to 19	27
20 to 24	17
25 to 59	261
60 and older	919
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	75
Mental or emotional	52
Physical	841
Hearing	7
Vision	14
Multiple disabilities	164
Other	82

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with California residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 56 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	762	64.6%	42.3%	1.53
Black or African American	55	4.7%	6.4%	0.73
American Indian or Alaska Native	31	2.6%	1.2%	2.19
Asian	58	4.9%	10.2%	0.48
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	7	0.6%	0.4%	1.67
Two or more races	41	3.5%	11.9%	0.29
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	225	19.1%	27.6%	0.69

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.

Goals achieved exceed goals set. For at least one goal category, more goals were achieved than were set.

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.