Louisiana · Nonprofit
BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC
BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,641 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $642k
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation Inc does
Mission
The emerge center empowers children with autism and individuals with communication challenges to achieve independence through innovative and family-centered therapies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Brshfs childrens developmental center encompasses the following programs therapeutic preschool, speech and language services, occupational therapy and behavioral services. We offer a number of inter-disciplinary services, while therapists and providers collaborate to achieve the best results for our clients and improve quality of life for families. Our therapeutic preschool provides multiple interventions, from a number of disciplines, under one roof. Nurturing professional staff work together and one-on-one with each child and family, to identify specific goals and develop a customized therapy plan for him or her, based on diagnosis, age, and skill level. This unique preschool format is aimed at helping each child to attend kindergarten ready to learn. Our speech and language services help children with speech and language deficits by building communication skills in a safe, healthy environment. Our supportive network of professional, licensed speech-language pathologists, along with their support team, are fully dedicated to listening to and learning from our children in order to find solutions to their speech and language problems. We provide evation and diagnosis, group…
$5,748,980 spent$5,258,220 earned by the program85% of program spendingAudiology services for children and adults helping people with hearing loss live an active lifestyle is a core focus of our mission. We offer comprehensive hearing programs for both children and adults to help each paitent overcome the specific challenges that hearing loss presents. These programs are led by licensed audiologists with the highest degree credentials. Our audiologists provide evaluations and diagnosis, hearing aid, personal fm systems for school-aged children, cochlear implant troubleshooting, assisted learning devices, hearing aid maintenance and consultation and auditory process disorder testing.
$403,579 spent$417,501 earned by the program6% of program spendingEmerge's behavioral health department specializes in treating behavioral difficulties in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and provide psychological and psycho-educational assessments. The assessment process includes, but is not limited to, testing for autism, adhd, intellectual disabilities, and learning disorders. Evaluations may include intellectual, achievement, and adaptive functioning assessments, specific diagnostic assessments, and functional behavioral assessments. Treatments include behavior therapy for problem behaviors, self-care deficits, mood/anxiety disorders, and anger management, as well as social skills training and feeding therapy. Consultative services for parents and schools are also available. A physician's referral is required to be treated by emerge's clinical psychologists. Referring pediatricians receive assessment results, and can receive additional documentation as requested pertaining to therapy. Family and teacher input is crucial to developing treatment plans based upon the child's strengths and needs. Our psychologists carefully develop treatment plans that coincide with behavioral functions while remaining practical for…
$344,057 spent$148,747 earned by the program5% of program spendingAll other program services
$265,576 spent$385,427 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,762,192.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.3M to $8.7M (+19%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Deanna Whittle
CEO
Board chair
Stephen Cangelosi
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $64k → $6k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Emerge Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION 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
BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 87% · 2019 44% · 2020 47% · 2021 77% · 2022 94% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
88% of BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chase Nmtc Emerge Center Investment Fund LLC · disregarded
- The Emerge Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC?
- BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,641 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $641,641 in grants to BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC?
- CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 11 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