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BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC

BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,750 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($499,584). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$26M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$5.6M
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc does

Mission

Buffalo hearing and speech center improves the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation of an early intervention program for children from birth to 3 with an operation of center and home based pre-school programs for children aged 3-5 with global delays in development, including delays in social communication, literacy and autism spectrum disorder. Incorporate an sed approved school age special education classroom for children with disabilities, ages 5-8, grades k-3.

    $17,879,992 spent$20,821,711 earned by the program
    81% of program spending

  2. Hearing and speech services are provided on an outpatient-basis including hearing and speech evaluations, hearing aid dispensing, cochlear implant mapping, literacy, social communications and accent modification, as well as auditory processing.

    $4,075,077 spent$4,110,740 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,955,069.

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 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 108 ($20M) Expenses 108 ($20M) Net assets 85 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 112 ($20M) Expenses 109 ($20M) Net assets 97 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 108 ($20M) Expenses 96 ($18M) Net assets 180 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 122 ($22M) Expenses 107 ($20M) Net assets 276 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 115 ($21M) Expenses 113 ($21M) Net assets 263 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 123 ($22M) Expenses 120 ($22M) Net assets 257 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 134 ($24M) Expenses 130 ($24M) Net assets 265 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 143 ($26M) Expenses 139 ($26M) Net assets 265 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (139)Net assets (265)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 2020 to 2021, from $6.5M to $12M (+78%).

$6.6M
$6.5M
$6.3M
$6.5M
$12M
$13M
$8.7M
$8.4M
$8.6M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 17% · 2021 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$444k
’17
−$319k
’18
$228k
’19
$1.8M
’20
$2.2M
’21
−$275k
’22
−$132k
’23
$164k
’24
−$17k
’25
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Joseph Cozzo

President/ CEO

Board chair

Todd Tevens

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed222220171818232124
Joined·+1+0+3+4+1+7+3+4
No longer listed·12631251
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $196k.

Funder
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'19
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'21
'22
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total
funders
2
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2
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5
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1

1 of 14 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER 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

BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 72% · 2021 53% · 2022 53% · 2023 76% — 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

25% of BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

81% of BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
PA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER 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 New York

Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Foundation Inc89%Alternatives for Children84%Therapy and Learning Center83%Heartshare Education Center83%The Child Study Center of New York83%Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc83%State University College at Buffalo Child Day Care Development Facility Inc82%Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc82%

Nationally

Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Foundation Inc89%Alternatives for Children84%The Center for Hearing and Speech84%Therapy and Learning Center83%Heartshare Education Center83%The Child Study Center of New York83%Central Florida Speech & Hearing Center Inc83%Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc83%
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

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Bhsc Management Corporation · corp_trust
  • Bhsc Support Services Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC?
BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,750 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($499,584). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,303,750 in grants to BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC?
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $499,584 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC find more funders?
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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 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