Get The Word Out
Legal name: Get The Word Out Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204964861
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Loveland, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7204542286
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,697
- Expenses
- $113,293
- Assets
- $72,093
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary J Powers (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary J Powers (President): $44,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coming alongside pastors & missionaries worldwide through teaching God’s Word. Mary Jean Powers partners with pastors and missionaries through Bible teaching, debriefing, life coaching, and chaplaincy. Ordained as a Teacher through The Evangel Ministerial Association, Mary Jean has ministered on five continents and in over 35 countries. She serves the body of Christ across generational and denominational borders, and in a variety of organizations including Mercy Ships, YWAM (Youth With a Mission), Teen Challenge, Walk Thru the Bible, and ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International). Her gift and passion for teaching the Word of God has opened doors as a seminar, retreat, and conference speaker. She is founder of Get the Word Out, a U.S. faith-based, nonprofit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Taught in 3 YWAM schools domestically. 4 Walk Thru the Bible seminars. Facilitated 22 multiple-day debriefs for pastors, missionaries, & ministry leaders. 31 Bible teaching opportunities (including several leadership development trainings for international organizations). 2 10-week sessions planning, facilitating, & teaching in Colorado School of Worship. Wrote 2 Bible study Workbooks. Traveled to 14 States, ministered in 7 different churches multiple times, & many coaching/counseling/advisory sessions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.