Arizona · Nonprofit
THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,275 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($72,820). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $262k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $298k
What The Ear Foundation of Arizona does
Mission
The mission of The Ear Foundation of Arizona is dedicated to the prevention, detection, and intervention of hearing loss.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
N/a
Early hearing detection and intervention (ehdi).programs to promote and implement universal newborn and early childhoodhearing screening in the state of arizona. Engage in language acquisition, assist in coordinating partners, and work toward updating associated databases for children enrolled in el services into school.
Hear for kids - provide children in need with either loaner or permenent hearing aids and offer vouchers to obtain hearing and medical evaluations.
Total of program service expenses for 2025
$212,219 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,219.
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 2024 to 2025, from $540k to $298k (−45%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 106% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 96% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Steven L Seiler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $7k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA’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 EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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.
Government funding THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
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 THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: 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 EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA?
- THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,275 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($72,820). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $160,275 in grants to THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $72,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EAR FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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