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Communication Service For The Deaf Inc

Csd's mission is to provide greater opportunities for access, independence and awareness for all individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Through global leadership and a continuum of quality communication services and human services programs, csd provides the tools conducive to a positive and fully integrated life. Csd is a deaf-led…

$137k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$137,331
Largest grant, FY2025
$137,331
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Communication Service For The Deaf Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$137k0%
FY20242$128k50%
FY20235$100k60%
FY20225$108k100%
FY20216$121k83%
FY20202$70k50%
FY20191$90k0%
FY20181$180k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$576kHuman Services$366kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$25kCivil Rights$25kArts & Culture$21kHealth$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
UT
MD
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Institute of Technology$565,68060%
Deaf Organizations Fund$240,256279%
Deafhope$35,00022%
Deaf Refugee Advocacy Inc$35,00028%
Our Deaf Survivors Center$25,00019%
Deaf Queer Resource Center$25,0001n/a
Off-The-Grid Missions$25,00018%
Indiana Association of the Deaf Inc$25,0001n/a
Turtle Island Hand Talk$20,8001n/a
National Black Deaf Advocates Inc$15,000114%
Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Communication Service For The Deaf Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Institute of Technology$565,68060%
Deaf Organizations Fund$240,256279%
Deafhope$35,00022%
Deaf Refugee Advocacy Inc$35,00028%
Our Deaf Survivors Center$25,00019%
Deaf Queer Resource Center$25,0001n/a
Off-The-Grid Missions$25,00018%
Indiana Association of the Deaf Inc$25,0001n/a
Turtle Island Hand Talk$20,8001n/a
National Black Deaf Advocates Inc$15,000114%
Sego Lily Center for the Abused Deaf$12,00012%
Asian Signers$10,0001n/a
Christ the King Deaf Church$10,0001n/a
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children$10,00010%
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf$7,80012%
Deaf Inc$6,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Communication Service For The Deaf Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $565,680 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDeaf Organizations Fund: $240,256 over 2y, 79% of budgetDeafhope: $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDeaf Refugee Advocacy Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetOur Deaf Survivors Center: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetOff-The-Grid Missions: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetNational Black Deaf Advocates Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSego Lily Center for the Abused Deaf: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHelping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf: $7,800 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDeaf Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Communication Service For The Deaf Inc

How much does Communication Service For The Deaf Inc give?
Communication Service For The Deaf Inc reported 1 grants totaling $137,331 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Communication Service For The Deaf Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (34%), International (2%).
Who are Communication Service For The Deaf Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rochester Institute of Technology ($566k), Deaf Organizations Fund ($240k), Deafhope ($35k).
Does Communication Service For The Deaf Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Communication Service For The Deaf Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Communication Service For The Deaf Inc based?
Communication Service For The Deaf Inc is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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