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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.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$137,331
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEAF ORGANIZATIONS FUND$137,331
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OUR DEAF SURVIVORS CENTER: $25k → 11%DEAFHOPE: $25k → 10%DEAF QUEER RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%DEAF ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $137k → 10%DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES- MICHIGAN: $6k → 11%DEAFHOPE: $10k → 10%Deaf Organizations Fund: $103k → 10%DEAF REFUGEE ADVOCACY: $25k → 14%DEAF REFUGEE ADVOCACY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
UT
MD
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$876k · 4 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +328% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$876k
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+328%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    6× · 2017–2024 · $566k · revenue +61%
  • DO
    Deaf Organizations Fund
    2× · 2024–2025 · $240k · 79% of their budget
  • D
    DEAFHOPE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • OD
    Our Deaf Survivors Center
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -37%
  • DQ
    Deaf Queer Resource Center
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • OM
    Off-The-Grid Missionsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global Deaf Research Institute

create, develop, and conduct deaf focus assessment and data gathering

International
2
Deaf Equality

To achieve equality for all Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people in the United States and worldwide.

Civil Rights
3
Deaf Defy Inc

Providing hearing aids and sign language instruction to deaf children living in refugee camps and areas of conflict

Human Services
4
National Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association
Recreation & Sports
5
Deaf Counseling Advocacy & Referral Agency

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

Human Services
6
Deaf Unity Inc

All deaf people -- adults and children -- have a right to a healthy and violence-free life.

—
7
Deaf Services Center Inc

To empower the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and to promote access to communication, services, and events in Central, Southern, and Northwest Ohio.

Health
8
Woodall Foundation
Recreation & Sports
9
Illinois Association of the Deaf

Promote deaf awareness and deaf issues in the state of illinois

—
10
Deaf We Can Inc

scholarships for deaf law school students

International
11
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center

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…

Health
12
Deaflead

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deaf Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rochester Institute of Technology: $565,680 · EducationRochester Institute of Technology+1 more: $10,000 · EducationDeaf Organizations Fund: $240,256 · Human ServicesDeaf Organizations FundDEAFHOPE: $35,000 · Human ServicesDEAFHOPEDeaf Refugee Advocacy Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesDeaf Refugee Advocacy IncOur Deaf Survivors Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesOur Deaf Survivors CenterDeaf Queer Resource Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesDeaf Queer Resource Center+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesTURTLE ISLAND HAND TALK: $20,800 · OtherAsian Signers: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING DEAF CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherOff-The-Grid Missions: $25,000 · Crime & LegalHELPING EDUCATE TO ADVANCE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF: $7,800 · Crime & LegalINDIANA ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitNational Black Deaf Advocates Inc: $15,000 · Civil RightsSEGO LILY CENTER FOR THE ABUSED DEAF: $12,000 · Health
Education$575,680Human Services$366,256Other$40,800Crime & Legal$32,800Public Benefit$25,000Civil Rights$15,000Health$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Communication Service For The Deaf Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communication Service For The Deaf Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Our Deaf Survivors Center: 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home