Speak Out Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831777716
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8327854471
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,061
- Expenses
- $7,495
- Assets
- $24,972
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHERLYN LATHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CHERLYN LATHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NANCY WHITE (FINANCE MANAGER)
- JEROME COVINGTON (SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR)
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
Bring domestic violence awareness, education, & resources
What it reported doing in 2025
Restart program - assist clients to obtain their ged via weekly schedule classes, assignments, and testing. This is a part of getting our client equiped to with basic educational skills to give them the ability to start maintaining themselves and obtaining jobs to develop self sufficiency. Over 20 clients participated in this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.