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· 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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
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 2024.

Health$432kArts & Culture$229kEducation$54k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $147,732, the rows itemized in this filing. The $167,168 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,436 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$21,359
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$70,471
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$30,000
MUSIC MAKERS OF WESTERN SPRINGS$21,359
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$9,002
ENCORE MUSIC ACADEMY$8,900
SCOPE CLINIC RUSH HOSPITAL SYSTEMS$8,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ENCORE MUSIC ACADEMY: $9k → 6%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $15k → 14%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $12k → 14%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $8k → 14%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $8k → 14%MUSIC MAKERS OF WESTERN SPRINGS: $21k → 14%THE CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY: $6k → 14%SCOPE CLINIC RUSH HOSPITAL SYSTEMS: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY IF ILLINOIS CHICAGO: $2k → 14%OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $9k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $142k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $93k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $34k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $24k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $23k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 14%MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $70k → 14%MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $50k → 14%MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $45k → 14%MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25k → 14%ADVOCATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 14%ADVOCATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $8k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$665k · 5 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$665k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+52%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2024 · $386k · revenue +60%
  • MS
    MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +36%
  • LA
    LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +52%
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
2
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
3
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
6
Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
7
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
8
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
9
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
10
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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11
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
12
Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center

As a member of sinai health system, mount sinai hospital medical center's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves by providing comprehensive medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric, and intensive…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Northwest Community Music Academy. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $385,636 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · HealthMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $189,891 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $9,002 · Arts & CultureNorthwest Community Music Academy: $8,900 · Arts & CultureLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $59,750 · Housing & ShelterLESTER AN…MUSIC MAKERS OF WESTERN SPRINGS: $21,359 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $12,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,500 · OtherUniversity of Chicago: $1,000 · Education
Health$411,136Arts & Culture$207,793Housing & Shelter$59,750Other$35,559Education$1,000

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

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

Fidelity Investments …
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 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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