Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,222,645 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($475,723). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $168M
What Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf does
Mission
We prepare children who are deaf, hard of hearing or have other communication needs for all aspects of life through high-quality, student-centered education and extracurricular programs in an all-inclusive communication environment (aice).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education of over 244 children from birth to 21 years. Courses and offerings meet or exceed requirements set forth by the us and pa departments of education. We have 4 sites: pittsburgh, scranton, hershey and edinboro.the pittsburgh campus provides educational and extracurricular programs from preschool through 12th grade, with a post-graduate component, to approximately 159 deaf and hard-of-hearing children from more than 100 school districts and 50 counties across pennsylvania.see schedule o for continuation.the scranton school for the deaf and hard of hearing children is a satellite campus of the school that serves students from northeast and central pennsylvania that provides education and extracurricular programs to approximately 85 students.we are dually accredited by mid-state association (msa) and conference of education administrators of schools and programs for the deaf (ceasd).
$22,044,710 spent$31,015,575 earned by the program97% of program spendingThe choices for children program has provided early intervention services to deaf and hard of hearing infants, toddlers and families in the western pennsylvania and scranton areas for many years. The school provides home-based early intervention services throughout pennsylvania to as many as 100 families. Experienced certified teachers have been the cornerstone of this primary home-based program, where visits to the home or daycare are conducted on a regular basis.
$646,672 spent$183,630 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,691,382.
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 $123M to $151M (+23%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Carrie Rain
Executive director
Board chair
David Michener
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $221k → $152k.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 55% · 2019 45% · 2020 22% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — 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
37% of WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
94% of WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Joseph Horne Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,222,645 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($475,723). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,222,645 in grants to WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 33 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