Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf
Donations deductibleHelping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf's network
9 peoplei9 people on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (9). Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK.The board
9 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations.Tenure and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed tenure is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 3 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI; we list 9 in Part VII (Part VII does not always name every voting member).| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connell Crooms | President Thru Mid-December | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Dustin Gibson | VP Thru Dec/President Beg. Dec | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Gabriel Arkles | Secretary Thru Mid-December | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Jessica Murgel | Treasurer Beg. December | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| KAJ Kraus | Treasurer Thru Mid-Dec/Ops. Dir. | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Liam Esposito | Community Contact Thru Mid-December | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Najma Johnson | Staff Contact Thru Mid-December | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Talila A Lewis | Executive Director | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Trinity McFadden | Comms Dir./Secretary Beg. Dec | 2023 | 3 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
1 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Talila A Lewis | Executive Director | since 2018 |
Pay and hours
year to 31 December 2025iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaj Kraus | Operations Director | 30 | $82k | $10k | |
| Trinity McFadden | Secretary | 30 | $82k | $10k | |
| Dustin Gibson | President | 1 | $0 | ||
| Jessica Murgel | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf
- EIN
- 275032142
- Address
- Po Box 1160, Washington, DC, 20013-1160
- State
- District of Columbia
- Mission
- Heard is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence. Heard supports disabled people and others who experience ableism by rejecting disability hierarchies and rigid definitions of disability, and by recognizing deaf people as part of... (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- I80 Crime and legal-related
- IRS classification
- 501(c)03 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- Crime & Legal-Related
- Size band
- 6 (IRS master file code)
- Formed
- 2011
- Principal officer
- Kaj Kraus (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 January 2013
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 5, latest 2023
- IRS Publication 78
- PC (contributions deductible)
Most connected
Longest observed on the filings
≥6years on the filingsKAJ Kraus
≥6years on the filingsLiam Esposito
≥6years on the filingsTalila A Lewis
≥4years on the filingsConnell Crooms
Latest return
year to 31 December 2025iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 31 December 2025. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $1.6m
- Total liabilities
- $31k
- Net assets or fund balances
- $1.5m
- Contributions and grants received
- $958k
- Program service revenue
- $2k
- Grants and similar paid out
- $47k
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 2
State registration
1 entityiBusiness-entity registers published by US states. These records are matched to this organisation by name and state, not by EIN, and are labelled as likely matches. Street addresses are not shown.Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf likely matchiMatched by exact name and state (and ZIP where shown). State registers do not publish EINs, so this is not a confirmed match. Source: DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP), corporate registrations (opendata.dc.gov). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribution: DC DLCP. Data last fetched 18 October 2026.
- State
- District of Columbia
- Entity type
- Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
- Status
- Active - In Good Standing
- Formed
- 18 February 2011
- Registered agent
- Northwest Registered Agent Service, Inc. (city and state not held)