North Carolina · Nonprofit
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,932,154 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,842,530). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc does
Mission
Providing access to superior speech-language and hearing services that empower and transform lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Speech:A full range of family-centered speech-language services, including prevention, identification and intervention services, is provided by our speech-language department. This department typically reaches approximately 3,500 individuals each year, whether in-person or via Tele-Health services. We are involved in many collaborative programs for at-risk children throughout our community. These include speech-language and literacy programs at disadvantaged preschools and child development centers, services to children with severe emotional-behavioral problems at residential schools and a speech-language and hearing identification project for low-income daycares throughout the Charlotte area. Our Assistance Fund provides free or reduced cost speech-language services to low-income individuals with communication disorders in our community. We provide over 2,500 screenings each year and strive to connect all of those children needing follow up with community resources. Our caregiver education outcomes demonstrate real change in how parents and teachers provide language and literacy stimulation to children they care for. Finally, by tracking the functional changes in our patients…
$2,261,371 spent$1,947,182 earned by the program80% of program spendingHearing: Our Hearing Services department serves approximately 700 individuals each year. Our patients travel up to 100 miles across the region to access our unique services. Our Hear to Help program provides free or reduced cost hearing aids and services to low-income children, adults and seniors who otherwise would face a disabling communication disorder with many adverse consequences. The gift of hearing provides an increased quality of life, a sense of security and is often the only path to employment and independence for older adults. For children the ability to hear and communicate is vital to their future; we want to give them the key to unlocking a world that they can succeed in. Each year our outcomes demonstrate that we succeed in making a positive and significant impact in the lives of those we serve as over 95% of our patients indicate a significant improvement in their quality of life and ability to communicate.
$552,936 spent$293,259 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,814,307.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+22%).
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.
29% of Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Blake Narr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $432k → $721k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Charlotte Speech and Hearing 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
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 54% · 2021 51% · 2022 32% · 2023 31% — 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
53% of Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Charlotte Speech and Hearing 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Charlotte Speech and Hearing 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 Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc?
- Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,932,154 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,842,530). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,932,154 in grants to Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,842,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 27 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