Arizona · Nonprofit
ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED
ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,690,795 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ($800,066). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Oral Educational Opportunities for the Hearing Impaired does
Mission
To teach each child the oral language skills needed to talk and understand when others talk to them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early education/preschool - classes meet 5 days a week for 6.5 hours per day. The children alternate between different settings, all settings focusing on communication skills. In groups of two or three children, a listening and spoken language professional provided direct language instruction focusing on vocabulary, syntax, conversational language, articulation, auditory training, and language enrichment. The small student to teacher ratio gives each child multiple opportunities to practice syntactically correct language. The preschool offers the opportunity for a child to become fully immersed in an education setting learning through oral instruction and interacting with classmates using complex language.
$766,618 spentof which $96,487 as grants$437,428 earned by the program66% of program spendingEarly intervention - desert voices is arizona's only nonprofit, independent school dedicated to teaching listening and spoken language (lsl) to children with hearing loss and their families. We provide services to children ages birth to five through our early intervention and early education programs. Our comprehensive lsl program includes little listeners, jump start, toddler class, preschool, and kindergarten. Each family starts in the little listeners program, where a lsl professional helps families understand their child's hearing loss and learn strategies to foster language development. Next, families transition to jump start, which is a "parent and me" class providing more opportunities for language acquisition alongside other families. Around age 2, children advance to the toddler class, where they engage in twice weekly small group sessions designed to expand their skills through play.
$356,839 spentof which $31,445 as grants$71,012 earned by the program31% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$35,000 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,158,457.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $2.8M (+13%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Kristen Levi
Executive director
Board chair
Tim Louis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $153k → $315k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED’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
ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% 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
92% 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 ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 81% · 2019 68% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 27% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
96% of ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $331k 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
ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED?
- ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,690,795 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ($800,066). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,690,795 in grants to ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED?
- THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $800,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 22 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