· Public charity
American Hearing Research Foundation
The American Hearing Research Foundation serves two vital roles: to fund significant research in hearing and balance disorders, and to help educate the public about hearing loss and balance disorders related to the inner ear.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Medical University of SC | $50,000 |
| University of Miami | $50,000 |
| Vanderbilt Medical Center | $50,000 |
| University of Rochester | $50,000 |
| Northwestern University | $50,000 |
| University of Colorado Denver | $50,000 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $49,936 |
| Boston University | $49,614 |
| University of Miami MSM | $41,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University7× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +41%- UOUniversity of Miami4× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +96%
- BCBaylor College of Medicine3× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOone grant, 2023 · $50k
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +6%- TOTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUSone grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Hearing Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Hearing Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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