Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941706320
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6503657500
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,226,892
- Expenses
- $3,651,912
- Assets
- $10,544,081
- Liabilities
- $566,180
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM DOYLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM DOYLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $320,335 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER AGUILAR (DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVIC): $177,234 total reported compensation
- MICHELY GONCALVES (REGISTRAR): $111,157 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transform lives of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, teaching them to listen, speak, and learnthrough proven spoken language and cognitive development curriculum, family centered education andinnovative technology.
What it reported doing in 2024
Onsite education and therapy program provides classroom education and one-on-one speech therapy for children ages 0-6 who are deaf or hard of hearing. This program concentrates on receptive and experssive spoken language, social skills, and cognition. Program objectives are to meet each child's individualized education program or individualized family service plan goals, and to prepare children to succeed in mainstream education starting by the first grade. Babytalk teleinvervention program developed in cooperation with the stanford school of medicine provides one-on-one distance audio/video speech and language therapy to parents and caregivers of children ages 0-3 who are deaf or hard of hearing. Onsite therapy-only program provides one-on-one in-person speech and language therapy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Other services include educational audiology, occupational and movement therapy, and parent education, all focused on children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Teach-lsl distance learing program offers remote listening and spoken language classes, teletherapy, and parent coaching to children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Talk2me coach-assisted parent app was in development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.89; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $320K · 15 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.