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YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER

YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,628 to it, the largest being LUNDSTROM ERNESTINE CHAR FDN ($111,618). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$499k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$149k
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($692k)2018 Revenue 75 ($785k) Expenses 55 ($554k) Net assets 134 ($929k)2019 Revenue 71 ($743k) Expenses 49 ($499k) Net assets 170 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 45 ($472k) Expenses 42 ($421k) Net assets 128 ($888k)2021 Revenue 38 ($395k) Expenses 23 ($235k) Net assets 195 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 51 ($530k) Expenses 64 ($649k) Net assets 168 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 46 ($483k) Expenses 11 ($108k) Net assets 218 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 42 ($440k) Expenses 30 ($306k) Net assets 237 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 48 ($499k) Expenses 31 ($319k) Net assets 264 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (48)Expenses (31)Net assets (264)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 35% · 2023 17% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$231k
18
$245k
19
$51k
20
$160k
21
$119k
22
$375k
23
$134k
24
$180k
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $12k.

From the IRS filings of YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER’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

YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 72% · 2019 81% · 2020 81% · 2021 80% · 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

YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.

OH
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Easterseals of Northeast Ohio · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: 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 YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER?
YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,628 to it, the largest being LUNDSTROM ERNESTINE CHAR FDN ($111,618). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $148,628 in grants to YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER?
LUNDSTROM ERNESTINE CHAR FDN is the largest funder on record, with $111,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing