Washington · Nonprofit
DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER
DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,317 to it, the largest being The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc ($54,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $784k
What Deaf-Blind Service Center does
Mission
Committed to assisting deaf-blind people maintain high quality of life/degree of personal autonomy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The support service provider (ssp) program is the cornerstone of dbsc. Ssps are trained, sighted guided, fluent in american sign language and providers of visual and enviromental information so that deaf-blind people can do their banking, shop, pay bills and perform other essential errands independently. The ssps provides this visual and environmental information enabling the deaf-blind person to make informed choices and decisions and so they can participate in the mainstream community. Dbsc trains and matches ssps with deaf-blind individuals at no cost to the deaf-blind person. Dbsc is also contracted with office of deaf and hearing (odhh) and city of seattle.
$383,387 spent28% of program spendingAt dbsc, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure deaf-blind individual have a choice at the community, state and federal government. For instance, being unable to secure a proper sign language interpreter, a qualified ssp, and/or accessing technology are only a few of many major barriers. There are many different types of advocacy that enable deaf-blind people to improve their ability to interact with society: self-advocacy and private policy advocacy.
$120,807 spent9% of program spendingInterpreting services. It's critical that deafblind individuals have access to qualified db interpreters who are proficient in using ptasl or protactile asl and tactile communication. The organization is responsible for recruiting highly qualified ptasl interpreters to meet the communication needs of their client so they can successfully access information. Dbsc is committed to facilitating high quality communication access for both deafblind and hearing consumers. The deafblind interpreter service focuses on people with both vision loss and hearing loss only.
$811,465 spent$988,353 earned by the program59% of program spending'professional to professional' services for deaf-blind (db) include professional support service providers (pssp) and professional communication facilitators (pcf). A pssp provides transportation, guiding, and visual/environmental information. A pcf copies sign language from a videophone caller to a deaf-blind person through close vision or tactile sign language. A pcf also shares the visual and environmental information seen on the video screen.
$65,860 spent$8,358 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,381,519.
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 2024 to 2025, from $792k to $1.0M (+30%).
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: 2023 61% · 2024 50% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $58.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DEAF-BLIND SERVICE 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
DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
43% 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 DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279 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.
Against its field
DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DEAF-BLIND SERVICE 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER?
- DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,317 to it, the largest being The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc ($54,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $94,317 in grants to DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER?
- The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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