Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER ON DEAFNESS
CENTER ON DEAFNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($109). 1 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
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $109
- Net assets
- $11M
What Center on Deafness does
Mission
The Center on Deafness is dedicated to providing quality services for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families, through educational, vocational, and residential services in a therapeutic, community - based environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult residential program - the Center on Deafness provides adult residential programs that include supported residential, supervised residential and community integrated living arrangement (cila). These programs are for the deaf and/or hearing impaired adult individuals with a developmental disabilities and/or mentally illness. Capacity for the program is 29.
$1,894,871 spent$2,891,040 earned by the program78% of program spendingThe community outreach program primarily provides sign language classes to bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing communities.
$7,400 spent$10,480 earned by the program0% of program spendingCommunity day service (cds) - the program provides deaf and/or hearing impaired adult individual's opportunities to be personally productive and build self-esteem. Our services include vocational skill development, job skill training, job readiness training, job placement, and independent living skills.additionally, the centerview therapeutic center (ctc) was created in february 2023 and provides community day services to hearing individuals in the community with developmental disabilities. The ctc day program offers individual training in independent living, social skills and development, health and wellness and community integration.
$533,458 spent$642,448 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,435,729.
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 $10M to $12M (+14%).
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 21% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 14% · 2024 11% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Guadalupe Villanueva
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $27.
1 of 1 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 CENTER ON DEAFNESS’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 CENTER ON DEAFNESS'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. $109 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.
Government funding CENTER ON DEAFNESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$86k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER ON DEAFNESS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER ON DEAFNESS: 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 ON DEAFNESS?
- CENTER ON DEAFNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($109). 1 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 CENTER ON DEAFNESS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $109 in grants to CENTER ON DEAFNESS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER ON DEAFNESS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER ON DEAFNESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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