California · Nonprofit
Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc
Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,897 to it, the largest being THE STEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc does
Mission
To advocate, educate, and serve as partners within our community to achieve full access and inclusion of, by, and for Deaf, Hard of hearing, Late Deafened and DeafBlind people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Communications Services During the fiscal year, 4,476 deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and hearing individuals were served. DCS provides qualified sign language interpreters who are competent in a variety of communication modes, including American Sign Language ASL, LSM, PSE, signed English, transliteration, oral interpreting, deaf interpreting, and protractile interpreting. DCS provides alternate communication options to assist with interpreting needs in any setting such as Communication Access Realtime Translation CART services and other communication methods.
$2,101,997 spent$2,449,330 earned by the program55% of program spendingBehavioral Health Services During the fiscal year, DCS provided 3,536 SOL and Clubhouse counseling services and client contacts to deaf and hard of hearing adults. DCS counseling services strive to resolve a wide variety of challenges and issues with substance use, mental and behavioral health, problems at the workplace, as well as other problems in daily life.
$678,311 spent$66,587 earned by the program18% of program spendingAdvocacy Services During the fiscal year, DCS advocated 1,278 deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind community members. DCS advocacy services provide support to deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and late-deafened individuals, ensuring equal access and equal opportunity in accordance with legal and civil rights and in a variety of public and private venues such as DMV offices, SSA offices, housing assistance offices, and such.
$764,627 spent20% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 188,007, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Employment Services During the fiscal year, DCS provided 592 employment services to deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind individuals. DCS employment services assisted job seekers in obtaining and maintaining employment, provide them high quality support services, and guide them through job search training, mock interviews, cover letter and resume development, and completion of job applications. The services also collaborate with employers to develop relationships that foster potential employment opportunities for deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind individuals. Program Service Expenses 66,469, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 244,749 Adult Literacy Services During the fiscal year, 171 deaf and hard of hearing adults were served. The adult literacy programs provide classroom learning and personal development through ASL. Classroom instruction includes educating trainees and participants about how to develop and maintain a myriad of skills necessary to live independently. In addition, workshop presenters participate in the classroom to provide trainees and participants with information on career exploration and…
$261,346 spent$248,437 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,806,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.7M (+87%).
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: 2018 34% · 2019 44% · 2020 53% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% · 2024 39% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Deaf Community Services of San Diego 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 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
Monique Ball
Executive Director
Board chair
Amrita Nat-Booter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $8k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Community Services of San Diego 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
Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 Community Services of San Diego Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 48% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 96% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
76% of Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- Department of Defense$12k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Deaf Community Services of San Diego 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Deaf Community Services of San Diego 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 Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc?
- Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,897 to it, the largest being THE STEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $99,897 in grants to Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc?
- THE STEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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