Mississippi · Nonprofit
De lEpee Deaf Center
De lEpee Deaf Center (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,332 to it, the largest being MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $589k
What De lEpee Deaf Center does
Mission
The De l'Epee Deaf Center, Inc. provides a comprehensive system and coordinated services to deaf/hard-of-hearing and disabled individuals of all ages, to their families, and to local agencies and businesses. The De l'Epee Deaf Center, Inc. promotes independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion of the deaf/hard-of-hearing and the disabled individual into the community and private sector.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To assist in carrying out various programs designed to meet the needs of the deaf community.
$288,082 spent$192,089 earned by the program78% of program spendingAbcm education program to assist in educating catholic deaf children about catholicism.
$79,339 spent$97 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,421.
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 $676k to $601k (−11%).
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: 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Vicki Miller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $2k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 De lEpee Deaf Center’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
De lEpee Deaf Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 De lEpee Deaf Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 72% · 2022 88% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
83% of De lEpee Deaf Center'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. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 De lEpee Deaf Center
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- The Administrative Office of the Catholi · exempt
- Catholic Foundation Diocese of Biloxi · exempt
- Medical Reimb Trust Diocese of Biloxi · exempt
- General Insurance FundDiocese of Biloxi · exempt
- Catholic Social and Community Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for De lEpee Deaf Center: 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 De lEpee Deaf Center?
- De lEpee Deaf Center (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,332 to it, the largest being MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does De lEpee Deaf Center have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $96,332 in grants to De lEpee Deaf Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of De lEpee Deaf Center?
- MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like De lEpee Deaf Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 4 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