· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEAF ORGANIZATIONS FUND | $137,331 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +328% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Rochester Institute of Technology6× · 2017–2024 · $566k · revenue +61%- DODeaf Organizations Fund2× · 2024–2025 · $240k · 79% of their budget
- DDEAFHOPE2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- ODOur Deaf Survivors Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -37%
- DQDeaf Queer Resource Centerone grant, 2022 · $25k
- OMOff-The-Grid Missionsgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
create, develop, and conduct deaf focus assessment and data gathering
To achieve equality for all Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people in the United States and worldwide.
Providing hearing aids and sign language instruction to deaf children living in refugee camps and areas of conflict
Promote and advocate for the rights of full access to American Sign Language and English,education,employment,and cultural identity for people that are Deaf,Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened, or DeafBlind people
All deaf people -- adults and children -- have a right to a healthy and violence-free life.
To empower the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and to promote access to communication, services, and events in Central, Southern, and Northwest Ohio.
Promote deaf awareness and deaf issues in the state of illinois
scholarships for deaf law school students
To advocate, seek equality, and promote self-determination through empowerment for those who seek our assistance; and to enhance the awareness and understanding of the deaf culture and the unique communication needs of the deaf and hard of…
To provide crisis intervention, advocacy, counseling, interpreting, wellness activities, and other direct services for deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, deafblind, deafdisabled, and deaf+ victims/survivors and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deaf Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Deaf Organizations Fund ↗
- Who funds DEAFHOPE ↗
- Who funds Deaf Refugee Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds Our Deaf Survivors Center ↗
- Who funds Deaf Queer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Off-The-Grid Missions ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF INC ↗
- Who funds National Black Deaf Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds SEGO LILY CENTER FOR THE ABUSED DEAF ↗
- Who funds Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children ↗
- Who funds HELPING EDUCATE TO ADVANCE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds DEAF INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Communication Service For The Deaf Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Our Deaf Survivors Center — 43% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.