Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC
DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,537,007 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,000,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Developmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities Inc does
Mission
Developmental evaluation and adjustment facilities, inc. Inspires people to achieve personal and professional goals through accessible programs and services. We build bridges across communities by increasing communication access and awareness. We offer educational programs; health literacy and medical case management services; independent living programs, basic english, information and referrals; advocacy; and accessibility services designed by and for deaf people in a deaf-positive environment. People come to deaf, inc. To develop skills, to learn what benefits and services are available to them to improve their health, develop their economic and personal independence, and become full, participating members of the larger community through education, employment, and community and political involvement. All our programs are designed to meet the linguistic and cultural needs of the diverse members of the deaf community and enable people to make informed decisions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy resources education and services offers training and support services so deaf youth, adults, and seniors (including those with age-related hearing loss) can acquire the skills, information, services, referrals, and assistive technologies they need to live independently and safely. The senior independent living services offers information and advocacy to enable seniors to remain independent and safe in their own homes for as long as possible. Assistive equipment program provides access to federal funds to acquire appropriate assistive technologies and training so people can get more effective use of hearing aids, telephone amplifiers, assistive listening devices, and the like. Deaf parents support group allows deaf parents share effective ways to address issues they face raising their children (deaf and hearing) from infancy through teens.
$2,014,986 spent$53,529 earned by the program80% of program spendingDeafblind community access network (dbcan): community access support to expand and maintain the independence of deafblind adults by matching them with sighted deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing "providers" trained by dbcan to provide guiding, 1:1 communication, and visual information supports.
$501,039 spent$250 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,516,025.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $4.8M (+105%).
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 88% · 2018 89% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 90% · 2022 87% · 2023 85% · 2024 50% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Darian Gambrell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $26k → $216k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES 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
DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 47% · 2019 26% · 2020 19% · 2021 47% · 2022 61% · 2023 42% — 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
31% of DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
68% of DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$250k
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 DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES 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 Massachusetts
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC?
- DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,537,007 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,000,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,537,007 in grants to DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 20 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