Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910681207
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2063235770
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,774,896
Expenses
$6,352,950
Assets
$4,165,515
Liabilities
$2,018,889

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK CONWAY (Vice President)
  • WILLIAM HARKNESS (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • ARIELE BELO (Executive Dir.): $88,837 total reported compensation
  • LINDSAY KLARMAN (Executive Dir.): $76,314 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hsdc is a western Washington service hub for clients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who face communication barriers. We envision an inclusive, accessible world, where everyone is understood and respected.

What it reported doing in 2024

Early childhood services: the nationally-renowned parent-infant program (pip) has been provided for over 60 years. This intervention program is oriented to children up to five years of age with communication challenges, hearing loss and secondary disabilities. Pip provides home visits, communications/learning development playgroups, parent support groups with a licensed family counselor, individual counseling sessions, sign language classes, and speech/language therapy. Audiology services are offered to children, aged birth to three years, with hearing loss, deafness or deaf-blindness. Rosen family pre-school is a pair of classrooms for children ages 1-3 and then 3-5 that emphasizes both american sign language (asl) and english, giving deaf or hard of hearing children the language foundation they need to succeed in school and later in life. The program is also open to hearing children who would benefit from an asl-friendly environment, such as those raised in a home that uses sign language.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.6%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.6% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $4.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.