New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION (New York) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,214,705 to it, the largest being THE H & F BAKER FOUNDATION INC ($1,782,688). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Center for Hearing and Communication does
Mission
Provide high-quality, comprehensive services to empower people affected by hearing loss, deafness or listening challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hearing Services: Wide range of clinical services of the highest quality including diagnostic audiological evaluations, hearing aid and device evaluations and dispensing, ear mold fitting and modification, and fitting of custom music enhancers. The center also provides central auditory processing evaluations and therapy, tinnitus retraining therapy, and assistive device demonstrations.
$1,642,014 spent$876,077 earned by the program29% of program spendingRehabilitation Services: The center conducts a highly regarded listening and spoken language therapy program to children of all ages with hearing loss, an auditory based language processing therapeutic program, and speech reading and auditory training for adults. The Center also provides individual and group academic support to children with hearing loss. The emotional health and wellness center provides mental health counseling and evaluations to individuals who communicate using spoken language and or American sign language.
$2,141,082 spent$1,071,108 earned by the program37% of program spendingFlorida Office: In Florida, Clinical services include diagnostic audiological evaluations, hearing aid and device evaluation and dispensing, case management, psychological evaluations, mental health counseling for children and adults and their families, job placement and coaching. Outstanding out of school programming is provided after school and during summer and includes educational, recreational and employment training for children ranging from elementary through high school age which is funded from grants received. Our Florida office is a distribution center for specialized telephone equipment for Florida residents with hearing loss under Florida Telecommunications Relay Inc. Florida adult programs include mental health services and educational workshops
$1,558,111 spent$44,924 earned by the program27% of program spendingPublic education is provided to individuals with hearing loss, parents of children with hearing loss, older adults in community centers and professionals in the hearing health and related fields
$376,963 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,718,170.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $15M (+122%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 18% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $324k → $1.5M.
16 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 30% · 2019 16% · 2020 28% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 17% — 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
59% of CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Westside Listening and Learning · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: 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 CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION?
- CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION (New York) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,214,705 to it, the largest being THE H & F BAKER FOUNDATION INC ($1,782,688). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $11,214,705 in grants to CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION?
- THE H & F BAKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,782,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 95 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