Speakout

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 821207907
IRS 990 coverage: 2023–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Phone: 8102937828
Rating: 74
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $1,185,691
Expenses: $1,059,977
Assets: $817,362
Liabilities: $70,326

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Antonio Driver (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

Antonio Driver (CEO): $65,895 total reported compensation
Rex Nas (Staff): $47,076 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Speak Out is to educate support and connect the LGBTQ community of color through social media engagement mentorship personal empowerment and health awareness.

What it reported doing in 2025

Speakout Inc. operates a Supported Housing Program in Flint designed to provide safe stable and affirming housing for LGBTQIA individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability. The program prioritizes transgender nonbinary and low-income individuals who face barriers to accessing traditional housing services. The program utilizes a housing-first approach and provides short-term housing assistance combined with supportive services including case management access to mental health counseling HIV STI testing and prevention services and workforce development support. Participants receive individualized service plans to promote long-term housing stability economic self-sufficiency and improved health outcomes. Through community partnerships and culturally responsive programming Speakout Inc. works to reduce homelessness and expand access to critical support services for underserved LGBTQIA populations in Flint and surrounding communities.

Operating model

Revenue model: Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 82
Transparency & Controls: 60
Accountability: 82
Sustainability: 46
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 10.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 4 people listed
Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.