· Public charity
Deaf Organizations Fund
Deaf Organizations Fund (dof) believes in a future in which deaf communities have access to a wide array of services provided by thriving, well-resourced organizations.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Atomic Hands | $25,000 |
| Deaf Defy Inc | $25,000 |
| Deafinitely Inc | $25,000 |
| The Deaf Black Project | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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.
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.
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…
As a non-profit organization, Deaf Austin Theatre's purpose is to enrich, inspire, educate, create, and entertain the Austin community by using American Sign Language (ASL) within all of our theatrical productions that range from classics…
The mission for the organization is to promote and improve deaf culture, education, knowledge and skill via language research,education aids, scholarship, humanitarian aids, public education and awareness programs.
To serve as a resource and referral center for families of children with disabilities and all other people with disabilities. we help these individuals access and understand their rights so that they can experience optimal success in their…
Deaf Granny Arts exists to support Deaf artists in their effort to spread awareness and foster understanding of Deaf people and visual communication. We do this by way of art. Our projects seek to bridge communication gaps between Deaf and…
To increase the impact of beautiful, functional products in our everyday lives and in the global economy.
To empower the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and to promote access to communication, services, and events in Central, Southern, and Northwest Ohio.
To help hearing impaired individuals.
How this is measured
9 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.
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.
- Who funds ATOMIC HANDS ↗
- Who funds DEAFINITELY INC ↗
- Who funds The Black Deaf Project ↗
- Who funds Deaf Defy Inc ↗
- Who funds DEAF SPOTLIGHT ↗
- Who funds HELPING EDUCATE TO ADVANCE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds Off-The-Grid Missions ↗
- Who funds DEAF EQUITY ↗
- Who funds DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deaf Organizations Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deaf Organizations Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Atomic Hands: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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How do I get to Deaf Organizations Fund?
Find your warmest path to Deaf Organizations Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
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