Colorado · Nonprofit
HANDS & VOICES INC
HANDS & VOICES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,590 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($304,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $879k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $135k
What Hands & Voices Inc does
Mission
Hands & Voices supports families who have children who are deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH) and the professionals who serve them. Our outreach efforts are focused on enabling D/HH kids to reach their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach services to parents and professionals who have d/hh children and/or serve children. Outreach services include educational workshops,1 to 1 support, state chapter trainings, parent leadership conferences, support to new families at the time of identification through the Guide By Your Side Program (GBYS 5020 families served).Advocacy through the ASTra program (489 families served 1200 advocates trained in 25 states). Support through the O.U.R Project reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect for this population. Served over 23000 parents/professionals. 192 attendees attended The Hands & Voices Leadership Conference in 2024. Latino Support Council with increased leadership and materials on website.
$604,380 spent80% of program spendingInformation dissemination, website ,presentations, webinars, virtual classes, resource guides, training modules, and surveys, the Hands & Voices Communicator distributed to over 5,500parents and professionals 4 times a year.(3 hard copies and one digital), www.handsandvoices.org, www.ndepnow.org, Book of Choice(560 copies}, Advocacy Guide Books (612 copies) ,We Are Hands & Voices( 125 copies), Fostering Joy Journal (825). Advocacy Guide books are available in Spanish as well as The Fostering Joy Journal for adults and children . H&V E-News published cutting edge news four times a year disseminated to up to 11,500 people per issue. H&V provided technical assistance to families, family-based organizations, professionals and system stakeholders 45 times each month on average.
$90,970 spent12% of program spendingH&V Representation on national/international Boards and committees. Continued Latino Support Council with increased leadership and materials on website. H&V D/HH Infusion Project ensures meaningful involvement of adults who are D/HH; Increased number of Chapter Boards with D/HH representation. Partnering/representing families with Research/National Projects: NCHAM Parent Advisory; AAP EHDI Committee; Sensorian, Oberkotter Family Engagement projects, Lilly Regenerative Medicine education project, and Phonak
$60,465 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $755,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $126k to $179k (+43%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HANDS & VOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Janet DesGeorges
Executive director Non Voting
Board chair
Karen Hopkins
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $125.
1 of 6 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 HANDS & VOICES 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
HANDS & VOICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 57% · 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
HANDS & VOICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640 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
HANDS & VOICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HANDS & VOICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$450k
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 HANDS & VOICES 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 Colorado
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANDS & VOICES INC?
- HANDS & VOICES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,590 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($304,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDS & VOICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $369,590 in grants to HANDS & VOICES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS & VOICES INC?
- OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $304,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS & VOICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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