Tennessee · Nonprofit
SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,913,729 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($805,735). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Speech & Hearing Center of the Midsouth Dba Memphis Oral School for the Deaf does
Mission
Empowering deaf children to listen, learn and talk.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Memphis oral school for the deaf (mosd) offered two developmental therapy centered programs: sound transitions and sound voyagers. In the sound transition program, students use a comprehensive approach to enhance their learning through listening and spoken language (lsl). During developmental therapy, the child is provided oral education using the lsl approach using the "listening-first" model, where they are taught to listen to sounds and language using assistive technology before learning to speak. Overall, this program has succeeded in reaching the goal of serving approximately 8 students in this academic year. The sound voyagers program targets speech or language delays for reasons other than hearing loss for students ages 2-4. This program has served approximately 9 children this academic year. The sound plus program (2-5) is an early intervention program supported by teis for children with hearing loss and other developmental delays including autism. All children participating in this program must be enrolled in teis. Sound plus meets 3 times a week for 3 hours each day (m/w/f). Each child will also be enrolled in speech therapy. One of our speech and language pathologists…
$1,653,628 spent$805,244 earned by the program100% of program spendingMemphis oral school for the deaf (mosd) offers an early intervention educational preschool for students five days a week. It emphasizes individual progress in speech and auditory skills from ages 2 to 6. It empowers children with hearing loss or hard of hearing who rely on assistive listening devices to have equal access to communication. The preschool is an eleven (11) month program that provides a comprehensive approach to enhance their learning through listening and spoken language (lsl) to help the children maintain and develop the skills needed to achieve their full potential. The school annually serves approximately 17 students in an academic year.
The speech & hearing center of the midsouth provides community speech therapy and audiological services in a traditional clinical setting. Services are extended to those attending the mosd early intervention educational preschool program on a weekly basis while the student is attending classes and those enrolled in the developmental therapy as outside clients. One unique clinical program, the sound beginnings program, is designed to offer one-on-one speech therapy for children with a parent education and training component to enhance child language and parent training development. This program is a building block to enrollment into the sound transition program. The sound beginnings clinical program provided services for approximately 40 clients in 2023-2024. Families in mosd's other programs utilize the center's providers annually as part of their enrolled students' individualized family service plan (ifsp) goals. Additionally, the speech-language pathologists conduct speech evaluations in company, with the audiologists providing cochlear mapping and hearing aid adjustments. Additionally, we outsource our services to partner schools in shelby county, and we currently have one…
Mosd acquired first joy preschool (fjp) in early 2025. First joy preschool is a preschool center that serves children from three months to five years of age. First joy is a preschool for typical hearing children though do have a program to provide childcare for children and families beginning their hearing journey. First joy preschool is open through the academic year and provides summer camp services. First joy's program specifically designed to serve babies is referred to as little first joy offering childcare services all year. Fjp provides hands-on learning with small and whole group instruction in a nurturing, supportive environment. Finally, first joy provides yeas of social development, academic learning, and independence building for all of our children.lastly, during the year, including the population from mosd's programs, the speech & hearing center served approximately 550 residents in the mid-south.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,653,628.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.5M to $10M (+22%).
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 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 18% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Andrea Baird
Executive director
Board chair
J R Parsons
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $83k → $114k.
9 of 24 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 SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF’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
SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 57% · 2019 47% · 2020 52% · 2021 28% · 2022 86% · 2023 38% — 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
53% of SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF'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
SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,913,729 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($805,735). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,913,729 in grants to SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $805,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 24 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