Deaf Action Center

Analysis

Deaf Action Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1978, 48 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, Deaf Action Center reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.4m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $2.6m (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Deaf Action Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alliance Health Centers Inc ($2.6m), Apnh a Place to Nourish Your Health ($2.6m) and The Center for Hope and Healing Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 74% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $87k (3.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $773k. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 36 employees.