Texas · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH
THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH (Texas) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,486,315 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,094,254). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Center for Hearing and Speech does
Mission
Identify childhood hearing loss as early as possible and provide families access to integrated medical, educational, and support services by understanding each child's uniqueness and empowering them to achieve their best outcome.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The melinda webb school - masters level teachers of the deaf and low student-teacher ratios help students ages 18 months to 6 years old accelerate their development of spoken language, listening, and literacy skills so they can attend mainstream schools by first grade. Students have access to physical and occupational therapists, audiologists to troubleshoot hearing devices, and speech pathologists. The melinda webb school also enrolls children who are not deaf or hard of hearing so they may benefit from its language-rich environment.
$2,280,983 spent$574,270 earned by the program33% of program spendingAudiology department - pediatric audiologists with doctoral degrees provide a family-centered, evidence-based early intervention approach to achieve optimal speech and language outcomes for children who are deaf and hard of hearing from birth to age 21. To enable children to maximize their hearing, our clinic is on the cutting edge of new technologies, which include hearing aids, osseointegrated devices, cochlear implants and remote microphone solutions.
$2,351,442 spent$784,272 earned by the program34% of program spendingSpeech therapy services speech language pathologists, including certified listening and spoken language specialists, provide specialized listening, language, and speech services to children who are deaf and hard of hearing from birth to age 21. To help children reach their full listening and spoken language potential, our speech therapists work with families on individualized treatment plans, provide tools they will need for them, and offer services in both english and spanish. Services are provide to children without hearing loss as well.
$1,761,829 spent$1,352,174 earned by the program26% of program spendingSocial work
$169,323 spent2% of program spendingCommunity relations
$300,289 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,863,866.
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 $5.9M to $20M (+238%).
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.
66% of THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
John Swift
CEO
Board chair
Nichelle Mclemore
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $697k → $1.2M.
12 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
45% 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 CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 25% · 2019 26% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 12% — 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
45% of THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH'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
86% of THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center for Hearing and Speech Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: 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 CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH?
- THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH (Texas) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,486,315 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,094,254). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $15,486,315 in grants to THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $3,094,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 109 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