Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC
THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,489 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($383,329). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc does
Mission
The mission of the learning center for the deaf is to ensure that all deaf and hard of hearing children and adults thrive by having the knowledge, opportunity and power to design the future of their choice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intensive day program - the program provides comprehensive educational and life skills programming for deaf children with disabilities that impact their cognitive and social/emotional development. This includes, but is not limited to, those with learning disabilities, development delays, and students on the autism spectrum. These students receive the full range of services offered to students in the day program and in addition are given a higher teacher to student ratio, behavioral programming based on their individual needs, and a range of support services from specialists.
$10,896,719 spent$11,371,391 earned by the program40% of program spendingWalden school - walden school is a nationally recognized bilingual-bicultural residential program that provides comprehensive treatment and educational services for deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents between the ages of eight to 22. Walden school students are challenged by severe social and emotional difficulties, and have significant treatment needs that have not been successfully addressed in other academic and residential settings. The students receive round the clock nursing care, a case manager focused on their individual needs, a nutritionist to support students in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and interact with fully-functioning deaf peers and role models, taking courses, when appropriate at marie philip school. Through their career technology education program, students are offered a wide range of vocational classes and hands-on opportunities.
$5,239,347 spent$6,527,703 earned by the program19% of program spendingDay program - the day program provides a challenging academic program for typically developing deaf children ages 3 through 21 utilizing a curriculum aligned with the common core standards. At the secondary level options include a wide range of required and elective academic coursework, ap classes, mainstreaming in the framingham public schools, and a career and technology program.
$3,167,797 spent$3,300,970 earned by the program12% of program spendingParent infant program - the parent infant program provides support and training for deaf and hard of hearing children, up to age 3, and their parents/ guardians in a language rich, bilingual-bicultural environment. Families, referred through local early intervention centers, can participate in parent support groups, child playgroups, home visits, individual sessions with a licensed speech/language pathologist, and classes in american sign language ("asl"). Services received will be incorporated into a child's individual family service plan ("ifsp").the early childhood center - the early childhood center serves deaf and hard-of-hearing students (age 0-6) and their families. Our goal for every child is the development of age-appropriate cognitive, communication, language and social skills. We strive to integrate the most exemplary and effective methods of teaching young children taking into consideration the unique, individual needs of each child we serve.public school partnerships - the public school partnership program addresses the specific needs of students with hearing aids and cochlear implants who attend public schools, providing a support system for monitoring deaf and hard…
$7,726,355 spent$7,800,814 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,030,218.
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 2019 to 2020, from $21M to $24M (+15%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Dr Sarah Glenn-Smith
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathy Vesey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $216k → $130k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
86% 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 LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 51% · 2023 49% — 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
35% of THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
68% of THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $579k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.7M on record — $1.7M federal, $20.0M state.
- Department of the Interior$1.7M
- MA$19.3M
- VT$742k
- NJ$300
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 LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC?
- THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,489 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($383,329). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,330,489 in grants to THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC?
- President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $383,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 34 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