Virginia · Nonprofit
HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,682 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($494,107). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Hearing Loss Association of America does
Mission
Hlaa opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. Hlaa is the leading voice of the growing number of people with hearing loss in the u.s. Hlaa advocates for communication access, end to stigma, and awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and outreach: with 50 million people in the u.s. Having some level of hearing loss, our work impacts millions through a broad-based outreach strategy that includes both print and digital media. The website, hearingloss.org, hearing life e-news, social media channels and engaged facebook groups enable us to reach a large, diverse audience. Hearing life magazine is distributed in print and available digitally free to the public. Hlaa's publications include meaningful stories showcasing our impact, programs and resources. Hlaa continues to be sought by media to be subject matter experts in in major news outlets resulting in awareness about hearing loss and hearing health. Hlaa staff/board/leaders speak at conferences, both to consumers and professionals, to educate about communication access and promote a person-centered approach to hearing health care access; employment in the workplace; technology access including the industry-consumer alliance for accessible technology; walk4hearing in 20 cities; free, captioned webinars
$354,616 spent18% of program spendingWalk4hearing/hlaa chapters: hlaa chapters meet the needs of people with hearing loss and their families where they live. With the dedication and creativity of chapter volunteers, we are making strides in accessibility, inclusion and empowerment. Local chapters provide peer support, educational programs, and advocacy for communication access across the county. Advocacy successes of chapters include installing assistive listening systems in public places, promoting captioning at movies and live theater, and work on state hearing aid coverage legislation. Walk4hearing raises awareness about hearing health (protection, screening and treatment) and draws the community. Both chapters and the walk expand our reach to people with all levels of hearing loss and diversity, especially those underrepresented in hearing health care.
$717,255 spent$10,931 earned by the program37% of program spendingConvention and peer support: the hlaa convention and exhibit hall, held annually, provides people with opportunities for hands-on experience, in-depth learning, and personal connection and support. Attendees exchange ideas, engage in meaningful dialogue and take what they learn home to their chapters, family and communities. An exhibit hall and demo room showcase the latest in hearing technology. Renowned speakers and policymakers engage with participants in a communication-accessible environment where's it's okay not to hear well. The research symposium is where scientific topics are presented in a consumer-friendly way to a lay audience. We also showcase hlaa public policy and programs and attendees can be present at the hlaa board of directors meeting for a year-in-review presentation. Hlaa chapters have a focused workshop track for training.
$526,060 spent$192,493 earned by the program27% of program spendingHlaa is the leading advocacy organization fighting to improve accessible communication, to broaden access to hearing care and treatment, and to ensure the rights of people with hearing loss. We work with our members, chapters, and professional and industry allies before congress, the executive branch, and regulatory agencies, pursuing positive change that improves the lives of millions every day. Hlaa's unique position of the unconflicted voice who represents comsumers is key to progess and positive outcomes.advocacy work includes, but not limited to: co-chaired the task force that filed a comprehensive report to the fcc resulting in the fcc issuing regulations for 100% compatiibilty with cell phones and hearing aids and cochlear implants, including comments on volume control; mobilized support for legislation that will broaden access for video, communication, and emerging technologies; filed comments with the fcc in support of creating quality metrics for captioned phones; partnered with the department of transportation to ensure that consumers know their rights under the air carrier access act (acaa) and saw the reasuthorization of the faa legislation to inlcude communications…
$357,725 spent$5,588 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,955,656.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $5.4M (+37%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Chief executive
Barbara Kelley
Executive director
Board chair
Ira Rubenstein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $47k → $274k.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 53% · 2021 57% · 2022 40% · 2023 22% — 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
28% of HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
65% of HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA'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 $583k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 45 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,682 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($494,107). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,676,682 in grants to HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $494,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing