Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC
ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,021 to it, the largest being SAUL P AND NELLIE Z AXELROAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Alabama Hands & Voices Inc does
Mission
The organization supports families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing without bias around communication modes or methodology. The organization provides resources, networks, and information families need to improve communication access and educational outcomes for their children. The organization runs a guide by your side program, advocacy support program where they train and compensate parent guides to serve as mentors for other families of deaf and hard of hearing children. The organization also runs a child safety project and hosts family retreats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We established a database, a facebook group, a facebook page and a website to serve as a means of communicating information relevant to parenting deaf and hard of hearing children. We plan seminars and informal parent chats to give up-to-date and easily accessible information to parents regarding issues unique to raising and educating a deaf or hard of hearing child. We host two family retreats per year for families of deaf and hard of hearing children to provdie a relaxed and fun setting for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children to interact with and learn from each other and with professionals and deaf adults.
$194,610 spent$344 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $20k to $47k (+134%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 93% · 2024 97% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maria Katz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $16.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC?
- ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,021 to it, the largest being SAUL P AND NELLIE Z AXELROAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,021 in grants to ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC?
- SAUL P AND NELLIE Z AXELROAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing