Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING
BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being HENRY DOLFINGER 2 TRUST UW ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Breakthrough Deaf Advocacy Plus Independent Living does
Mission
Breakthrough: Deaf Advocacy Plus Independent Living Center strives for inclusivity of Deaf consumers under effective communication required in American Disability Act Title II regulations in a consumer-run facility serving individuals and collective, people with disabilities, as everybody works toward establishing further civil rights and equity for all people under the A.D.A.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
After a meeting where the Independent Living Center, LRI discussed interruptions in services, they disclosed that all of the CIL are losing money, and unable to budget to include our organization into their SPIL. I changed our approach to fit the issues brought up by the Deaf Grassroots Movement: Communication Access, Employment, and Education. We changed our approach to getting CESP for payment from O.V.R. as we work with many Deaf people looking for work to start incomes. We also are looking in other streams of revenue since we can't sustain this organization with CIL funding for the time being.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Opened Teach Me English Through A.S.L. for Deaf Adults Literacy in September 2024 Mentioned in Scranton News about Act 57, and our stance on making that bill more stricter and hold interpreter agencies responsible Assisted over 80 Deaf adults struggling with human services and providing them excellent services in employment, housing, legal issues, food, finance, and food banks. Advocated for Deaf people and investigates medical issues like Virtual Relay Interpreters vs. In Person Interpreters, work with Deaf clients filing complaints in Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Partnered with Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Black Deaf Advocates, Disability Rights Network, Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University, Philadelphia Audism Project, and Mayor's Office Commission on People With Disability.
$8,603 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
0% of BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being HENRY DOLFINGER 2 TRUST UW ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- HENRY DOLFINGER 2 TRUST UW is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH DEAF ADVOCACY PLUS INDEPENDENT LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2024–2026), and the filings of 1 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