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HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER
HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,680,391 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($1,084,480). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center does
Mission
Hsdc is a western washington service hub for clients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who face communication barriers. We envision an inclusive, accessible world, where everyone is understood and respected.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interpreting services: this program provides on-site and video remote interpreting to almost 500 schools and universities, health care providers, goverment agencies, the legal system, corporations, small businesses, non-profits and the arts. Interpreting services at hsdc uses certified, nationally-qualified interpreters, and specializes in high-quality customer service, matching the right sign language interpreter with the specific requirements for each situation. The program also seeks to provide affordable interpreting services to the non-profit sector.
$2,031,972 spent$2,806,955 earned by the program47% of program spendingEarly childhood services: the nationally-renowned parent-infant program (pip) has been provided for over 60 years. This intervention program is oriented to children up to five years of age with communication challenges, hearing loss and secondary disabilities. Pip provides home visits, communications/learning development playgroups, parent support groups with a licensed family counselor, individual counseling sessions, sign language classes, and speech/language therapy. Audiology services are offered to children, aged birth to three years, with hearing loss, deafness or deaf-blindness. Rosen family pre-school is a pair of classrooms for children ages 1-3 and then 3-5 that emphasizes both american sign language (asl) and english, giving deaf or hard of hearing children the language foundation they need to succeed in school and later in life. The program is also open to hearing children who would benefit from an asl-friendly environment, such as those raised in a home that uses sign language.
$1,416,205 spent$1,363,481 earned by the program33% of program spendingAudiology and the store: this program provides hearing screening, evaluation and consultations, from infant to elder, in the seattle office. The program fits, dispenses, services and repairs hearing aids, regularly donates gift aids to low income and special needs recipients, and offers aural rehabilitation classes for people with hearing loss and their families.
$375,486 spent$271,843 earned by the program9% of program spendingDeaf services: this program provides advocacy services, information and referrals, training, education and support for individuals who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing. The program trains businesses, community groups, schools, local and state government agencies, landlords, and others in the community, on providing apprpriate accessibility and support for deaf and hard of hearing clients and customers. Through the seattle, tacoma, and bellingham offices, these services are provided to 13 counties in western washington. The bellingham office also provides a family program with sign language classes and communication strategies.
$291,747 spent$226,507 earned by the program7% of program spendingSpeech: this program provides speech therapy, auditory verbal therapy, language acquisition training, reading and learning development, and associated services, to people of all ages. Clients are those with challenges related to hearing loss, speech development, cognitive delays, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and social cognition skills.
$177,870 spent$116,769 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,293,280.
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 2018 to 2019, from $17M to $6.2M (−63%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% · 2024 20% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER’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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $356k → $913k.
13 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 57% · 2019 62% · 2020 55% · 2021 45% · 2022 18% · 2023 79% — 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
43% of HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
87% of HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$64k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$15k
- Department of Education$8k
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 HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER?
- HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,680,391 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($1,084,480). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,680,391 in grants to HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER?
- AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,084,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 50 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