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BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING

BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,100 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($35,904). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$383k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$121k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Beginnings for Parents of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing does

Mission

The mission of beginnings sc is to provide emotional, informational, and technical support to the parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, deaf parents with hearing children, and professionals serving those families. Beginnings sc assists parents of children from birth through age 21 by providing information and support that will empower them as informed decision makers, helping them access the services they need for their children, and promoting early identification of hearing loss and awareness of early intervention programs. Beginnings sc believes that given accurate, objective information about hearing loss, parents can make sound decisions for their children about educational placement, communication methodology, and related needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides services to families with deaf or hard of hearing children.

    $296,870 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,870.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($257k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2018 Revenue 152 ($379k) Expenses 102 ($262k) Net assets 614 ($140k)2021 Revenue 148 ($368k) Expenses 163 ($419k) Net assets 17 ($4k)2022 Revenue 258 ($643k) Expenses 237 ($611k) Net assets 158 ($36k)2023 Revenue 246 ($613k) Expenses 222 ($571k) Net assets 340 ($78k)2024 Revenue 223 ($557k) Expenses 212 ($547k) Net assets 384 ($88k)2025 Revenue 154 ($383k) Expenses 136 ($350k) Net assets 529 ($121k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (154)Expenses (136)Net assets (529)Peer revenue range

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 $43k to $140k (+226%).

$43k
$140k
$50k
$36k
$78k
$88k
$121k
2017201820212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 97% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 85% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
$117k
’18
−$51k
’21
$32k
’22
$42k
’23
$10k
’24
$33k
’25
4.1
months of
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.

2017201820212022202320242025
Listed97109111010
Joined·+2·+2+6+4+1
No longer listed·4·3451
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
2
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING’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

BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

100% 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 BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 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

100% of BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING

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In South Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING?
BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,100 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($35,904). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,100 in grants to BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING?
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEGINNINGS FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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