New Jersey · Nonprofit
SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL
SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,224,695 to it, the largest being MARGARET A DARRIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,525,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Summit Speech School does
Mission
To empower children with hearing loss to become effective communicators using listening and spoken language. With support from families and professionals, there are no limits to our children reaching their fullest potential in their homes, schools, and communities, and becoming lifelong learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education of hearing impaired children three to five years of age.
$1,192,353 spent$1,524,332 earned by the program39% of program spendingProvide early intervention services to children zero to three years of age. Offers parents and caregivers the skills and confidence they need to help their young children learn to listen and talk . Individualized sessions provided at home or in childcare settings are guided by certified teachers of the deaf and focus on auditory habilitation and speech/language developement.
$494,219 spent$312,817 earned by the program16% of program spendingItinerant program - specially trained teachers of the deaf provide support to children and young adults, parents, and school personnel, from preschool through high school, to maximize the benefits received from mainstream placement.
$1,350,341 spent$1,670,319 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe school provides audiological services serving the audiological needs of the school's population and also provides pediatric outpatient services to the community.
$38,558 spent$19,075 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program expenses and revenue
$53,460 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,075,471.
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 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $7.3M (−36%).
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 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 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. 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
Ray Dorso
Executive director
Board chair
Christine Preston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $118k → $763k.
11 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 44% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — 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
58% of SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
77% of SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743k 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.
Government funding SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- STATE AID$135k
- DEDICATED$35k
- FEDERAL$4k
- GRANT IN AID$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: 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 SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL?
- SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,224,695 to it, the largest being MARGARET A DARRIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,525,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $4,224,695 in grants to SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL?
- MARGARET A DARRIN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 75 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