California · Nonprofit
The Black Deaf Project
The Black Deaf Project (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,290 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($111,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $134k
What The Black Deaf Project does
Mission
We are committed to working within and alongside Black Deaf and hearing communities to address audism in our community, create culturally inclusive education, and seek opportunities for Black joy and thriving. Join us on this journey to a more equitable and accessible world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Deaf, Brilliant, and College-Bound: A college and career exploration program that empowers Deaf youth of color through campus exposure, mentorship, and pathways to higher education or trades. Black Success Symposium: A weekend event that supports Black Deaf and hearing participants in exploring and thriving in Deaf-related careers and professional fields. Melanin in Every Page: A book initiative that uplifts Black Deaf voices by creating and promoting children's literature where Deaf children can see themselves represented.
$35,955 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,955.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $56k to $134k (+140%).
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.
79% of The Black Deaf Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton PhD
Executive Director
Board chair
Jimel Brightly
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Black Deaf Project’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
The Black Deaf Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 The Black Deaf Project.
“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
The Black Deaf Project draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Black Deaf Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Black Deaf Project
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Black Deaf Project: 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 The Black Deaf Project?
- The Black Deaf Project (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,290 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($111,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Black Deaf Project have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $171,290 in grants to The Black Deaf Project.
- Who is the largest funder of The Black Deaf Project?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $111,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Black Deaf Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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