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Illinois · Public charity

Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources

Raise funds to support programs which assure that individuals with hearing and communication disorders have the opportunity to develop to their full potential, enjoy the same social and educational opportunities as their peers, and lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

$167k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$148k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$21,359
Largest grant, FY2024
$70,471
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$148k67%
FY20234$94k0%
FY20224$50k25%
FY20213$83k33%
FY20204$45k25%
FY20192$38k0%
FY20184$110k50%
FY20172$148kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$432kArts & Culture$229kEducation$54k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$385,63680%
Merit School of Music$189,89140%
Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center$59,75060%
Music Makers of Western Springs$21,3591n/a
Advocate Charitable Foundation$17,50020%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$12,7003n/a
Old Town School of Folk Music$9,00210%
Northwest Community Music Academy$8,90011%
Rush University Medical Center$8,00010%
University of Chicago$1,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $385,636 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMerit School of Music: $189,891 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLester and Rosalie Anixter Center: $59,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocate Charitable Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld Town School of Folk Music: $9,002 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Community Music Academy: $8,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources

How much does Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources give?
Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources reported 6 itemized grants totaling $147,732, out of $167,168 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (60%), Arts & Culture (32%), Education (8%).
Who are Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($386k), Merit School of Music ($190k), Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center ($60k).
Does Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources based?
Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources is based in IL.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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