Hearing the Call Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811565210
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2604025914
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $664,526
- Expenses
- $610,443
- Assets
- $1,184,170
- Liabilities
- $150,396
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Nora Stewart (Chairman)
- Joseph Bonahoom (Treasurer)
- Jim Thorpe (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To eliminate the financial gap for patients in order to ensure everyone is given the opportunity for dignified, quality hearing health care that changes lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hearing the Call (HTC) is a fundraising organization that supports international humanitarian trips and domestic humanitarian efforts. In the United States, HTC enables for-profit audiology practices to broaden their reach to income eligible families by providing a platform for tax deductible fundraising to break down the barriers to affordable hearing healthcare. Funds raised may be used to conduct hearing clinics, subsidize reduced fees charged locally to income eligible patients or for other qualified, hearing related charitable purposes. Domestic humanitarian efforts expanded to 38 non-profit projects that provide access to hearing health care to income eligible families in 22 states in the United States from partnering with 44 independent private audiology practices. Please see Schedule O for further information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $84.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 54.2%; rating input score 54; 30th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $543K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.