Liabilities / Assets
75th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 75% of similar nonprofits.
EIN 99-1993908 • 501(c)3 • Chicago, IL
Profile
To achieve equality for all Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people in the United States and worldwide.
Precomputed percentiles relative to similar nonprofits. These scores are descriptive rather than judgmental.
Liabilities / Assets
75th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 75% of similar nonprofits.
Liabilities / Revenue
75th percentile
Higher debt load relative to revenue than 75% of similar nonprofits.
Net Margin
91st percentile
Higher net margin than 91% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
94th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 94% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 15.8% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
Score unavailable
No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.
Revenue Growth
Score unavailable
No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.
Assets
$113,924
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Liabilities
$6,196
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Net Assets
$107,728
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Revenue
$197,774
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Expenses
$90,046
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Net Income
$107,728
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Most recent year
2024 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
To achieve equality for all Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people in the United States and worldwide.
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Advocacy: our legal advocacy department handles intakes for legal and advocacy services from Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened individuals and their families. This involves taking calls, emails, and other communications from those individuals and determining the type of legal or advocacy assistance needed. Upon completing an intake for any individual situation, we make a determination of what guidance they need and provide either direct assistance or a referral to a lawyer, legal entity, or other type of service entity to give them the services they need. In the latter half of 2024 when we started our organization, we directly served approximately 250 people. | - | $31,042 |
| Policy Advocacy: our policy advocacy department seeks to influence federal and state government agencies in how they develop, implement, and enforce policies and guidelines with respect to the rights of Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people. In pursuing this type of work, our policy team engages with other advocates including but not limited to other deaf based nonprofits, disability rights nonprofits, legal entities, and corporations to engage in coalition building and collective advocacy. The benefits of this policy work impacts more than 48 million people from the communities we serve. | - | $25,275 |
| Consulting: Our consulting team engages with for profit corporations in various industries such as technology, telecommunications, media, finance, sports, health, and transportation to promote best practices in their marketing, employment, and services with respect to Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, and Late Deafened people. The benefits of this policy work impacts more than 48 million people from the communities we serve. | - | $15,521 |
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zainab Alkebsi | Chief Policy Officer | FT | $31,250 | - | $31,250 |
| Anna Bitencourt | Chief Litigation Officer | FT | $25,000 | - | $25,000 |
| Howard Rosenblum | Chairman | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Richard S Brown | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Opeoluwa Sotonwa | Secretary | - | $0 | - | - |
| Azeema Akram | Treasurer | - | $0 | - | - |
“Office Expenses $679”
“Travel $4500”
“Insurance $5547”
“Outside Services $9754”
“Employee Benefits $1530”
“Supplies $1455”
“Interpreting $1206”
“Dues and Subscriptions $1000”
“Meals and enterainment $572”
“Taxes and Licenses $525”
“Reimbursements $510”
“Captioning $218”
“Bank Fees $29”
“Payroll Processing $20”
“Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $0 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Ending $1382”
“Liabilities_Other - Beginning $0 Liabilities_Other - Ending $4814”
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