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INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATES INC

EIN 04-2701621 E BRIDGEWTR, MA

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Revenue 2024
$2,451,552
Expenses 2024
$2,483,362

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P820
Classification
1000
Street
100 LAUREL ST STE 122

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SINCE 1980, IA HAS WORKED WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PROVIDING THE RESOURCES WHICH ENABLE THEM TO LIVE AS INDEPENDENTLY AS THEY WISH IN THE SETTING THAT THEY CHOOSE. LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS ABOUT DIGNITY, FREEDOM AND OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS WHICH STILL EXIST TODAY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. AS A CROSS AGE, CROSS CULTURAL AND CROSS DISABILITY ORGANIZATION, IA WORKS TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO ANY PERSON WITH A DISABILITY LIVING WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

  • INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES THE SKILLS AND RESOURCES TO ENCOURAGE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE. 709 CONSUMERS WERE SERVED.

    Expenses $943,810 · Revenue $1,051,235

  • PRE-EMPLOYMENT TRANSITION SERVICES ASSISTS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TRANSITIONING FROM NURSING HOMES OR OTHER INSTITUTIONALIZED SETTINGS INTO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS YOUTH TRANSITIONING FROM SCHOOL LIFE TO ADULTHOOD.

    Expenses $101,352 · Revenue $42,635

  • THE PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANT (PCA) PROGRAM IS A PROGRAM THAT IS MANAGED BY THE CONSUMER, AND FUNDED BY MASSHEALTH. THIS PROGRAM ENABLES INDIVIDUALS WITH A PERMANENT OR LONG-TERM DISABILITY TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME WITH THE SERVICES NECESSARY TO REMAIN INDEPENDENT.

    Expenses $1,181,835 · Revenue $1,319,580

  • VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES THE SKILLS AND RESOURCES TO LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL INDEPENDENT EMPLOYMENT. 36 CONSUMERS WERE SERVED.

    Expenses $17,986 · Revenue $9,949

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES RELATED TO DME (DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT) REUSE

    Expenses $13,500 · Revenue $13,171

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Suzanne Allore

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anita A Ashdon

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Thayer

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Brown

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Gray

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melissa Nussey

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven S Higgins

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,251
    From this org
    $120,033
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,218
    Hours/week
    37.5
  • Mary Ellen Gatto

    BUSINESS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $114,973
    From this org
    $102,188
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,785
    Hours/week
    37.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,451,552
    Expenses
    $2,483,362
    Contributions
    $8,250
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,302,672
    Expenses
    $2,320,791
    Contributions
    $1,398
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,155,265
    Expenses
    $2,007,830
    Contributions
    $1,624
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,960,718
    Expenses
    $1,883,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $845,215
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,841,824
    Expenses
    $1,707,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $758,959
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,863,495
    Expenses
    $1,836,146
    Assets (EOY)
    $636,904
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,686,578
    Expenses
    $1,615,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $635,572
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,514,775
    Expenses
    $1,512,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $557,638
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,652,015
    Expenses
    $1,528,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $552,158
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,488,794
    Expenses
    $1,502,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $422,688
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,210,000
    Expenses
    $1,232,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $438,386
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,291,942
    Expenses
    $1,111,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $448,081
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $973,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $367,780

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.