Hearing & Speech Center of Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 590668488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3052717343
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,687,029
- Expenses
- $1,350,998
- Assets
- $4,503,328
- Liabilities
- $1,408,836
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEATRIZ LEON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BEATRIZ LEON (CEO): $230,698 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was incorporated in 1937 and reincorporated in 1961 to provide diagnosis and treatment for individuals of all ages with speech, language and hearing disabilities through its centers in South Florida needing speech, occupational, physical and educational services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hscf conducts screenings for hearing/vision/speech/language skills on-site at childcare centers throughout miami dade county. Although hscf screens children at private and subsidized childcare centers, more than 80% of the children that are screened are enrolled in a subsidized childcare program. The goal of this program is to identify children in the community who are demonstrating delays in vision, hearing and or speech-language, and furthermore, to ensure their parent/guardian understands what the concern is (educational component), and to ensure the first appointment is made with the appropriate professional to ensure that the concerns are addressed and that children receive care in areas of concern. In fiscal year 2024-2025, the hearing and speech center of Florida, inc. Provided service to 1,014 children in the community throughout miami dade county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.8%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 72%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st 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: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.8% of revenue deployed · 72% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $973K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.