Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,088,053 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,527,362). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center does
Mission
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The speech-language and learning department provides the following array of services: speech and language evaluations and language therapy. Services are offered to both adults and children, both individually and in groups, at our four office locations. Services are offered at low or no cost to the majority of clients. The department also provides speech and language screenings, evaluations, and therapy at area schools, head start locations, and other community venues. Professional programs such as accent modification are also offered. Educational opportunities are offered through area presentations and workshops. Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center (chsc) has an affiliation with case western reserve university (cwru) in which chsc assists in training masters' level students in the field of speech-language pathology. Cwru rents a significant portion of space from chsc in furtherance of this affiliation.
$2,183,978 spent$1,156,130 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe audiology program provides the following array of services: hearing screenings, hearing evaluation, hearing aid and assistive listening device dispensing, hearing aid repairs, hearing and loss prevention programming, and professional audiology services. A variety of insurance plans are accepted including medicare, medicaid, and many private insurance plans. Reduced fees for services are typically available to those who financially qualify. Through the ohio department of health early intervention program chsc also provides, at no cost, family training and counseling for children ages birth to three years who are identified with hearing loss.
$1,832,908 spent$1,797,427 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe community center for the deaf and hard of hearing offers the following array of services: vocational rehabilitation services, case management and support services, and advocacy. Community education through presentations, workshops, and social media vlogs. Agency trainings and education on deafness, deaf culture, ada compliance, and effective use of american sign language (asl) interpreters. Domestic and sexual violence education, advocacy, and prevention. American sign language classes. Signstage educational programming, a theater arts program that incorporates asl to promote deaf culture and tolerance.
$1,769,744 spent$892,330 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,786,630.
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 $21M to $11M (−46%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 21% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Jennell C Vick
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $127k → $1.1M.
14 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 54% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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
56% of CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
74% of CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER?
- CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,088,053 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,527,362). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $6,088,053 in grants to CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,527,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 83 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