Maine · Nonprofit
HEAR ME NOW INC
HEAR ME NOW INC (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,949 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($1,088,844). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $28k
What Hear Me Now Inc does
Mission
Hear me now! Now supports and advocates for the families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing who choose listening and spoken language, and for their speech therapists and teachers who provide professional services to them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization now provides advocacy services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Hear me now! Supports listening and spoken language (lsl) programs in maine. We support children and adults who use cochlear implants and hearing aids to access the full potential of listening through hearing technologies.
$12,870 spentof which $9,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,870.
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 2022 to 2023, from $491k to $105k (−79%).
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.
34% of HEAR ME NOW INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Pamela Rand Dawson Med
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $59k → $13k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 HEAR ME NOW 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
HEAR ME NOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
HEAR ME NOW INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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
HEAR ME NOW INC's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HEAR ME NOW 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
16% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEAR ME NOW 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 HEAR ME NOW INC?
- HEAR ME NOW INC (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,949 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($1,088,844). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEAR ME NOW INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,128,949 in grants to HEAR ME NOW INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAR ME NOW INC?
- OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,088,844 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAR ME NOW INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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