The Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss

Analysis

The Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss is a registered charity in United States, based in Palo Alto, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss reported income of $1.1m and spending of $680k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $605k to $1.1m (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 385%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Association of State Head Injury Administrators ($1.1m), National Dental Association Inc ($1.1m) and Albert Ellis Institute ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.0m.