New York · Public charity
Hearing Health Foundation
HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $97,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $259,742
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Hearing Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $750k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $871k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $580k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland College Park | $1,722,228 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $921,516 | 6 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $915,995 | 6 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $850,767 | 8 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $805,797 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $529,712 | 4 | n/a |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | $495,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nihnia | $479,701 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland College Park | $1,722,228 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $921,516 | 6 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $915,995 | 6 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $850,767 | 8 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $805,797 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $529,712 | 4 | n/a |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | $495,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nihnia | $479,701 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Creighton University | $308,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | $199,171 | 3 | n/a |
| New York University | $188,681 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona State University | $149,998 | 3 | n/a |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $149,263 | 3 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University Foundation | $121,500 | 2 | 0% |
| State University of New York at Binghamton | $121,175 | 3 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa | $110,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $108,354 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $99,958 | 2 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $99,939 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota | $94,072 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington University | $85,830 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $79,930 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $74,891 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ohio State University | $50,087 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rice University Office of Sponsored Projects and Research Compliance | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $49,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $49,930 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin | $49,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Auburn University | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Cancer Institute | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Connecticut Health Center | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State University | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| John Hopkins School of Medicine | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wayne State University | $29,959 | 1 | n/a |
| Villanova University | $29,815 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | $29,560 | 1 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $26,538 | 1 | 0% |
| Acoustical Society of America | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $23,616 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hearing Health Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Hearing Health Foundation
- How much does Hearing Health Foundation give?
- Hearing Health Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $2,290,548, out of $2,475,548 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hearing Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Science & Tech (34%), Education (19%).
- Who are Hearing Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Maryland College Park ($1.7M), University of Washington ($922k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($916k).
- Does Hearing Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hearing Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Hearing Health Foundation based?
- Hearing Health Foundation is based in NY.
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