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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.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
24
Funders on record
$1.9M
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
13/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 82 ($1.4M) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 103 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.8M) Expenses 102 ($1.4M) Net assets 109 ($6.7M)2020 Revenue 83 ($1.4M) Expenses 101 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($6.6M)2021 Revenue 134 ($2.2M) Expenses 104 ($1.5M) Net assets 121 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue 143 ($2.4M) Expenses 110 ($1.5M) Net assets 124 ($7.6M)2023 Revenue 131 ($2.2M) Expenses 121 ($1.7M) Net assets 133 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 105 ($1.7M) Expenses 123 ($1.7M) Net assets 138 ($8.4M)2025 Revenue 121 ($2.0M) Expenses 160 ($2.2M) Net assets 134 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (160)Net assets (134)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$251k
17
$60k
18
$369k
19
$38k
20
$759k
21
$818k
22
$469k
23
$12k
24
$248k
25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

42%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

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

52% of SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

NY
PA
VA
TN

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 23%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: 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 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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing