Speak Life Performing Arts Company Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862530039
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Stuart, FL, USA
- Phone
- 6313351123
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $580,283
- Expenses
- $544,258
- Assets
- $356,228
- Liabilities
- $3,056
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Burd (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Dan Burd (President): $88,550 total reported compensation
- Rebecca Burd (Secretary): $83,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Speak Life Performing Arts Company is dedicated to growing empathy, shifting culture, and teaching a generation to Speak Life. The organization delivers a high-impact assembly program and follow-up digital resources to schools, families, and community programs, addressing bullying, student mental health, and suicide ideation. Through live event experiences, digital content, and ongoing engagement tools, Speak Life equips students and families to create positive change within their schools and communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization delivered high-impact, film-based assembly experiences and supporting digital resources to schools, equipping students, educators, and families to address bullying and student mental health. Through its Speak Life End Bullying for Schools initiative, the organization served thousands of students with live event programming, facilitated discussions, and ongoing lesson-based resources that reinforce positive peer behavior and intervention. Parent resources were also provided to help continue these conversations at home. These services increased student engagement, strengthened school culture, and provided practical tools for responding to bullying and peer challenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $467K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.