Missouri · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH
CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,817,840 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($3,513,514). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Center for Hearing & Speech does
Mission
The Center for Hearing & Speech improves the quality of life for individuals with hearing and speech disorders by providing caring and high quality services, regardless of ones ability to pay
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Merger with easterseals of missouri on may 1, 2025
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The audiology program identifies and treats children and adults experiencing hearing loss, auditory processing disorders and other issues of the vestibular system. Doctors of audiology recommend and fit, adjust and repair assistive listening devices including hearing aids, do cochlear implant mapping or assist patients with another strategy to meet their goals and maintain optimal hearing health. This program targets low-income individuals who require financial assistance. In 2025, 883 clients received audiology services. Of those, 47% were provided with financial assitance. 192 hearing aids were dispensed with 63% paid for with some financial assistance
$212,027 spent$18,301 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe speech pathology program identifies individuals with speech/language disorders and/or delays and provides therapy so that children achieve age-appropriate speech/language skills; and assists adults whose communication skills have been impacted by a medical and/or behavioral diagnosis, achieve a functional level of communication. This program provides children the skills to overcome or minimize communication disorders or delays that can cause impact age appropriate literacy, academic performance and social/emotional health. In 2025, 210 individuals received services.
$143,125 spent$75,421 earned by the program23% of program spendingMobile services programs description the center has two (2) mobile services programs: school screening and industrial hearing conservation. Below are specific descriptions for each program. School screening - this program identifies possible hearing and vision loss in pre-school and school age children and refers these identified children for further treatment. Industrial hearing conservation - administers screenings to identify persons with hearing loss due to prolonged exposure to high noise level work environments and assesses environments for noise levels. The center contracts with the employer to deliver services to employee onsite at the employers location(s). Our mobile units also provide screenings at community events, health fairs, senior centers or other locations as requested.
$260,086 spent$289,718 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $615,238.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.3M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Catherine Brown
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $527k → $641k.
5 of 40 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.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 & SPEECH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 58% · 2020 43% · 2021 70% · 2022 59% · 2023 65% — 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
39% of CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
80% of CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 & SPEECH
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: 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 & SPEECH?
- CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,817,840 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($3,513,514). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,817,840 in grants to CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,513,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 40 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