Washington · Nonprofit
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,452,712 to it, the largest being THE ALDARRA FOUNDATION ($1,721,570). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children does
Mission
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SchoolPreschool to 8th Grade: Using Signing Exact English, spoken language and listening, we offer our one-of-a-kind, highly interactive curriculum to children ages preschool through eighth grade. We contract with 20 local school districts and serve approximately 35 - 40 students annually on our Shoreline campus. Our curriculum is aligned with the Common Core State Standards with a focus on building the English grammar and reading skills critical to learning any subject. To teach these essential communication skills, we use research-based instructional methods and highly effective teaching strategies. In addition, the Signing Exact English Program offers sign language instruction to individuals and families throughout the United States. Through a combination of online and in-person coursework, this program helps build strong communication within families and develop the signing proficiency of staff members who work directly with students and families.
$3,006,014 spent$2,254,262 earned by the program78% of program spendingFamily Conversations is a program for families with children from birth to age three who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Using best practices in the birth to three field combined with our highly interactive curriculum, Family Conversations offers a total communication approach which integrates Signing Exact English (S.E.E.), spoken language and listening. The children served have a variety of hearing levels and live in homes throughout King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Family Conversations serves approximately 55 - 65 families annually.
$850,928 spent$495,756 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,856,942.
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 2017 to 2018, from $9.5M to $11M (+16%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $8k → $1.1M.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children’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
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 56% · 2021 39% · 2022 71% · 2023 47% — 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
55% of Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
83% of Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $316k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: 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 Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children?
- Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,452,712 to it, the largest being THE ALDARRA FOUNDATION ($1,721,570). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,452,712 in grants to Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children?
- THE ALDARRA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,721,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children 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 26 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