Mission Talk Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832531042
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4076836830
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,377,957
- Expenses
- $876,786
- Assets
- $2,577,659
- Liabilities
- $7,323
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Agustin Quiles (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Agustin Quiles (President): $103,470 total reported compensation
- Lizelle Romero (Officer): $31,865 total reported compensation
- Elizabeth Conde-Frazier (Officer): $11,007 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To equip practitioners of community transformation work
What it reported doing in 2024
Faith-Based Education and Leadership Development: Mission Talk equips Latino evangelical pastors and lay leaders to integrate faith and justice in their ministries through education, leadership training, and community formation. In 2024, the organization continued its Justice Leadership Development for Community Transformation program, a structured initiative providing workshops, mentoring, and experiential learning for church leaders committed to social transformation. Activities included an educational immersion in Montgomery, Alabama, where Central Florida faith leaders explored Black history through site visits and reflection sessions; the Celebrate Justice Convening and Recognition Dinner at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, which brought together program participants, honored legacy leadership with the Streams of Justice Awards, and premiered A Chronicle on Latino Evangelicals Engaging with Black History by Mission Talk Films; and an August Pastors' Retreat that offered rest, renewal, and peer connection for leaders advancing justice-focused ministry. These efforts strengthened the capacity of more than 150 pastors and community leaders to apply social-justice principles in their congregations and neighborhoods. Included in the 2024 expenses are advance costs of $92,319.66 for the next year's Montgomery, Alabama scheduled for January 2025; expenditures were recognized in 2024 consistent with the organization's cash basis of accounting.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.3%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 43.5%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: $734.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 74%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.94; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 101.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 64.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.3% of revenue deployed · 43.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $382K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 11/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.