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LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC

LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,609,715 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($900,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$1.9M
20/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc does

Mission

To teach hearing impaired and speech language delayed children to listen and talk by providing high quality educational, therapeutic and family support services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provides a safe and appropriate early childhood environment day school for hearing impaired, speech/language delayed and typically developing children ages birth to three. Provides a language enriched preschool programming for hearing impaired, speech/language delayed and typically developing children ages 3-6.

    $2,175,211 spent$2,002,320 earned by the program
    60% of program spending

  2. Clinic focusing on the application of listen and spoken language therapies. Clinic serves children of all ages with small groups, individual therapies, and a full-range of audiological services.

    $1,459,652 spent$1,343,635 earned by the program
    40% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,634,863.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($810k)2020 Revenue 105 ($3.3M) Expenses 111 ($3.4M) Net assets 96 ($780k)2021 Revenue 121 ($3.8M) Expenses 108 ($3.3M) Net assets 164 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 137 ($4.3M) Expenses 115 ($3.5M) Net assets 267 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 125 ($4.0M) Expenses 123 ($3.7M) Net assets 297 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 130 ($4.1M) Expenses 139 ($4.2M) Net assets 278 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 126 ($4.0M) Expenses 145 ($4.4M) Net assets 231 ($1.9M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (126)Expenses (145)Net assets (231)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $3.9M (+25%).

$2.4M
$2.6M
$3.1M
$3.9M
$4.1M
$3.8M
$3.5M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$138k
’19
−$30k
’20
$546k
’21
$837k
’22
$241k
’23
−$102k
’24
−$383k
’25
2.0
months of
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

Marcey Ansley

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed15151414171720
Joined·+2+3+4+5+0+7
No longer listed·244204
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $207k → $191k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Songs for Sound Incunclassified
$12k
funders
14
10
12
16
14
13
16
16
8
2

5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

29% 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 LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC.

34%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 48% · 2022 72% · 2023 26% — 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

52% of LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

MN
WI
OH
PA
NJ
KY
VA
TN
NC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER 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 Kentucky

Louisville Deaf Oral School Foundation78%Lexington Children's Theatre Inc78%Virginia Chance School Inc77%Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc77%Lexington School Inc76%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass Inc76%Heuser Hearing & Language Academy75%Stepping Stones Learning Centerinc75%

Nationally

The Center for Hearing and Speech84%Childhood Language Disorders Center Inc82%Speech & Hearing Center of the Midsouth Dba Memphis Oral School for the Deaf81%Pediatric Learning Center Inc81%Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center81%Therapy and Learning Center80%Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc80%Child's Voice School80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 13%Fundraising 4%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC?
LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,609,715 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($900,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,609,715 in grants to LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC?
OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 33 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