Maryland · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION
AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,271 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $410k
- Net assets
- $23M
What American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation does
Mission
The ashfoundation's mission is to advance knowledge and improve practice in serving children and adults with speech, language, or hearing disorders by supporting research and education and by facilitating innovative directions for the discipline of communication sciences and disorders. The vision of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation is to ensure that all individuals reach their full communication potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships, research grants and clinical achievement awards - nationally competitive programs foster advances and scholarly excellence. In 2024, the ashfoundation awarded 645,823 through 74 research grants, scholarships and clinical achievement awards in support of research investigations, doctoral and master's education, and clinical developments. In addition to the recipient funding, expenses include the cost of preparing and distributing guidelines, the selection of recipients and underwriting attendance at selected scholarly activities.
$843,115 spentof which $680,823 as grants$35,500 earned by the program73% of program spendingProgram communication - program visibility is achieved through a variety of communication vehicles, such as articles in the association publications distributed to over 241,023 constituents and associates, as well as the foundation annual report, newsletters, special program materials, and electronic communication.
$228,455 spent$270 earned by the program20% of program spendingAsha convention - the ashfoundation promotes and conducts mission related programs during the annual association meeting, which was attended by approximately 13,360 members of the association's total 241,023 members
$89,762 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,161,332.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $21M (+16%).
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.
55% of AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Sharon E Moss
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $150k → $61k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Speech-Language-Hearing Association). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION’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
AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 67% · 2021 79% · 2022 97% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn · exempt
- National Association for Hearing and Speech Action · exempt
- Nat'L Student Speech Lang Hearing Assn · exempt
- Asha Political Action Committee · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,271 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $410,271 in grants to AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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