Global Deaf Research Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931490979
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8183580098
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Human Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,671
- Expenses
- $57,107
- Assets
- $46,664
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Lorne Farovitch (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Dr Lorne Farovitch (Executive Director)
- Emily Jo Noschese (Chairperson)
- Jack Z Ludwig (Vice Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create, develop, and conduct deaf focus assessment and data gathering
What it reported doing in 2025
Deaf Focus Data Assessment and Gathering Development
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 47.4%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 47.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.