The Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
266385104
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Hanover St Palo Alto, CA, USA
Phone
6502334894
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,327,907
Expenses
$809,859
Assets
$4,116,392
Liabilities
$30,000

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNIFER JORDAN MCCALL (PRESIDENT/CHAIR OF BOARD)
  • CAROLINE D CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER JORDAN MCCALL (PRESIDENT/CHAIR OF BOARD)
  • CAROLINE D CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • HILLARY S CLARK (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The baker institute for children with hearing loss provides essential funding for the unmet medical and therapeutic needs of children with hearing loss, focusing initially on those who reside in northern California and ny. The institute works in partnership with the otolaryngology departments of the renowned medical centers of stanford university of California-san francisco and nyu. It may also support other programs organizations and individuals that address similar needs. The institute assists children with needed funding to supplement government and insurance benefits for hearing AIDS, cochlear implants, speech pathology, pyschological support for children and their families and audiology, both before and after provision of hearing assistance.it also provides intensive training for families and their children in a supportive and loving framework, so that the children can maximize the benefits from the medical assistance they receive.providing children will improve their lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the summer of 2025, The Baker Institute coordinated an intensive medical summer camp for underprivileged hearing impaired children called "Listen to Me!" Summer Institute. The goal of this one-week intensive medical camp is to provide maximum support to these underprivileged hearing impaired children in the areas of critical need, with valuable information and services being provided free of charge from doctors, specialists and therapists on hand. The particpants were housed in spacious facilities on the beautiful Stanford campus. Each day, the children (supported by their local therapists and parents, who could bring their newly learned skillsback to their homes where they could then continue to assist the children) participated in an auditory oral class, individual speech, and language.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 39%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.08; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $721K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.