· Public charity
Hearing Health Foundation
HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE SPA OFFICE | $259,742 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS (NIDCD) | $190,000 |
| MASS EYE & EAR | $175,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $130,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE SPONSORED PROGRAMS OFFICE | $125,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $114,000 |
| STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $97,000 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY ON BEHALF OF UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO UCSF MAIN DEPOSITORY ACCOUNT | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBaylor College of Medicine8× · 2017–2025 · $851k · revenue +67%
- SISTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH5× · 2017–2025 · $495k · revenue +19%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEone grant, 2018 · $55k
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- RURICE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH COMPLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
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How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 55 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.
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hearing Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hearing Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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