Alabama · Nonprofit
THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION
THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,620 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($467,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $960k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What The Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education does
Mission
The Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education (wise) is dedicated to empowering families with the skills, strategies, and resources so that every child with hearing differences or developmental delays can learn to listen, speak, read, and integrate fully into the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educating deaf children in noise controlled environments through the use of a listening and spoken language approach (lsl) and auditory verbal therapy sessions that can occur in the childrens' homes or day care center and are conducted by a certified speech language pathologist.
$2,081,367 spent$1,649,125 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,081,367.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.9M (+82%).
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 28% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Nancy Gregg
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Audie Woolley
President & chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $82k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION’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 WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 70% · 2022 66% · 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
38% of THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION?
- THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,620 to it, the largest being OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION ($467,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $959,620 in grants to THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION?
- OBERKOTTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $467,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 17 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