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COMMUNICATION SERVICE FOR THE DEAF INC

EIN 46-0332149 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2024
$28,600,020
Expenses 2024
$25,581,133

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P870
Classification
1200
Street
2028 E BEN WHITE BLVD SUITE 240-525

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brendan Gramer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Elise Nye

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Marilyn Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • Mark Seeger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael McLaurin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $6,250
    From this org
    $6,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Roberta Mather

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rogelio Fernandez Jr

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    From this org
    $10,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Shireen Hafeez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Terria Middlebrook

    Director

    Total calculated
    $6,250
    From this org
    $6,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Anna Wilson

    Chief Legal Officer

    Total calculated
    $207,885
    From this org
    $178,114
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,771
    Hours/week
    48 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,114
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,771
    Filer's total
    $207,885

  • Christopher Soukup

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $407,847
    From this org
    $373,633
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,214
    Hours/week
    48 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $301,633
    Bonus
    $72,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,214
    Filer's total
    $407,847

  • Thomas Means

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $192,310
    From this org
    $167,647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,663
    Hours/week
    48 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,647
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,663
    Filer's total
    $192,310

  • Amanda Whyrick

    President, California Connect

    Total calculated
    $164,409
    From this org
    $138,595
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,814
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,595
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,814
    Filer's total
    $164,409

  • Eric Lima-Gomez

    Vice President, People & Culture

    Total calculated
    $148,149
    From this org
    $138,329
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,820
    Hours/week
    45

  • Jeff Best

    Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

    Total calculated
    $157,070
    From this org
    $119,087
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,983
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,087
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,983
    Filer's total
    $157,070

  • Lakshmi Ponappa

    Executive Director, Deaf Organizations Fund

    Total calculated
    $134,905
    From this org
    $119,273
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,632
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

  • Rosa Timm

    President, Social Venture Fund

    Total calculated
    $187,401
    From this org
    $150,153
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,248
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,153
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,248
    Filer's total
    $187,401

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $28,600,020
    Expenses
    $25,581,133
    Contributions
    $490,718
    Grants paid
    $137,331
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,572,255
    Expenses
    $17,114,403
    Contributions
    $616,908
    Grants paid
    $127,925
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $18,631,038
    Expenses
    $23,923,322
    Contributions
    $735,136
    Grants paid
    $100,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • DEAF ORGANIZATIONS FUND

    501(c)(3) · PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE GRANTS AND RESOURCES TO DEAF-CENTRIC NONPROFITS · DE · controlled entity

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.