Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TALK INC
TALK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,983 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($250,051). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $451k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Talk Inc does
Mission
The talk school, is the nation's most progressive center for the education of children with autism and speech/language disorders. As teachers, therapists and researchers we are at the forefront of a new, more accurate and person centered understanding of autism. One that presents autism as a sensory based movement disorder profoundly affecting language, social interaction and praxis. While the scientific literature is just beginning to reflect this view, the talk school has always recognized that sensory and movement difficulties are at the foundation of autism and other language disorders. As a consequence, talk school provides intensive occupational and speech therapy to support a full day systematic, multisensory, language based curriculum including all academics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The talk school provides full day immersion in a language based, fully integrated therapeutic and academic program. In addition, talk provides unique therapies to its students and on an outpatient basis including language evaluations and therapeutic intervention for the treatment of childhood apraxia of speech, phonological disorders and language disorders. In addition, talk's occupational therapists offer occupational therapy based in sensory integration, motor learning/motor development, and emotional relational approaches. The interactive metronome, a brain based assessment and training program developed to improve processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning, timing and sequencing; therasuit, which provides proprioceptive input to muscles and joints. The talk school expanded its license under the pennsylvania department of education to include tutoring. We are licensed to offer tutoring in both early literacy and emerging and developing literacy, including phonological awareness, sound symbol association, syllable instruction, comprehension skills, synthetic and analytic instruction and multisensory instruction.
$1,965,193 spentof which $156,715 as grants$2,184,657 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,965,193.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $5.3M (+253%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of TALK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $200k → $79k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 TALK INC’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
TALK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TALK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of TALK INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TALK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TALK INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TALK INC: 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 TALK INC?
- TALK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,983 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($250,051). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALK INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $450,983 in grants to TALK INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALK INC?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,051 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 3 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