Illinois · Nonprofit
CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL
CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,405,888 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($7,368,163). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Child's Voice School does
Mission
The mission of child's voice is to empower children with hearing loss to be successful in all educational and social settings by optimizing their listening, speaking and academic skills, our programs provide specialized support and education to children with hearing loss and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School program: for nearly 28 years, child's voice has empowered children with hearing loss for a lifetime of learning alongside their hearing peers. Parents are given the opportunity to provide their child with the educational services they need.child's voice partners with families with the end goal of preparing each student to move into their neighborhood school districts and attend their local mainstream schools. As the only private school in northern illinois that supports this underserved population, we provide specialized deaf education to children and their families.the school program is a school-age, classroom-style, listening and spoken language program for children aged 3-8. Students receive an intensive classroom education focused on language and auditory skill development as well as key academic components and social interactions.
$1,686,442 spent$2,136,064 earned by the program67% of program spendingEarly intervention: children begin listening even bofore they are born. Learning the sounds of their mother, hearing her voice, her heartbeat. Those early days and years are spent absorbing all the sounds and voices around them. When an infant/toddler is diagnosed with hearing loss they have lost that early exposure to sound. That child is now working to close the gap in that early learning.child's voice strives to bridge that gap.the early intervention program provides a foundation of listening and spoken language skills to children from birth through three years old. This is shared through home based services (individualized speech and lestening therapies along with parent education support), the baby voices group (a bi-monthly group session for parents and infant/toddler 4 weeks - 17 months targeting parent education, social interaction and support) and the toddler group (a group experience that provides social interaction, a varied language/listening environment and language/vocabulary exposure for children 18 months - 3 years with their parents).
$714,134 spent$208,360 earned by the program28% of program spendingAudiology center & pedicatric early hearing detection & intervention (pehdi) program: the audiology center provides services to all children in the school program as well as those attending the groups in the early intervention program. These services include diagnostic testing evaluation and device (hearing aids/cochlear implants) support. Additionally, the pediatric hearing & intervention (pehdi) program offers diagnostic testing to improve the follow up of families with newborns/infants at risk for hearing loss and increasing the timeliness of diagnosis when a loss is present. With the amazing and continued advancements in technology, early identification, and early intervention services, children with hearing loss can develop the skills to listen and to speak. This begins with early diagnosis and good access to sound, both of which can be accomplished through the audilogy center at child's voice. When children leave child's voice, they are better prepared for success. The curriculum and therapies shared provide the building blocks needed for these children to achieve great things. They have built a strong foundation that enables the student and their family to succed. The…
$129,682 spent$44,125 earned by the program5% of program spendingFundraising events and investment income that benefit the entire organization
$215,420 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,530,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.1M to $8.9M (+73%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Wendy Deters
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $262k → $530k.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 84% · 2019 86% · 2020 62% · 2021 67% · 2022 97% · 2023 66% — 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
52% of CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL: 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 CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL?
- CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,405,888 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($7,368,163). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $8,405,888 in grants to CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL?
- OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,368,163 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing