Louder Than Words
Legal name: Louder Than Words Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200273024
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Gastonia, NC, USA
- Phone
- 704-813-7494
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,729
- Expenses
- $105,088
- Assets
- $60,596
- Liabilities
- $669
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK MOORE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- GARY GREG (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN SESSIONS (DIRECTOR)
- REBECCA MORRISON (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hands-On Ministry alongside indigenous people in Honduras, sharing the gospel and building lasting relationships through mission-team work (including 25+ years leading mission teams). Join us as we partner with pastor Antonio Escobar as he works to plant a reproducing church in the village of San Antonio del Norte, Intibucá. Throughout the week we will repair homes, lead children’s ministry, offer nightly evangelistic services and provide a free medical / dental clinic for the people of the village. Registration Info Get Breaking News. Lenca Backpacking Mission Join us on our annual backpacking mission trip to the department of Lempira. We will hike in the mountains for 5 days sharing the gospel alongside our Honduran church planter partners. Team Leader: Vollie Barnwell Registration Info.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provision of relief, educational, religious and building efforts via missionary teams sent to foreign countries. Louder than words successfully served approximately 600 honduras
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.