Speakup
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232896812
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Devon, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6105199600
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,322,291
- Expenses
- $1,215,987
- Assets
- $2,189,711
- Liabilities
- $226,955
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTHA G BERNICKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TAMRA KLERR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLY BULLOCK (DIR. FINANCE & ADMIN): $98,286 total reported compensation
- MARTHA G BERNICKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,908 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN JACKSON (SECRETARY): $1,225 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Speakup! Provides youth, educators and parenting adults with the skills, opportunity and support to be heard on the critical issues of today. Speakup! Enables youth to make positive life choices and parenting adults and educators to support them as they navigate the journey to become happy, confident adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
This audit year speakup! Conducted 25 programs serving 30 diverse school communities in the region. Our school profile is as follows: 56% of our schools are private / 44% public; 78% suburban / 22% urban; 53% of our programs are at the high school level / 47% middle school. In terms of participant totals, speakup! Supported our partner schools to have youth, educators and parenting adults speak up. We engaged 760 students on our student leadership team. We trained 326 educators in facilitation, 253 co-facilitated events and in total, 385 educators attended the 25 forums. To continue the conversation through our parenting adult coffee series, we added more in the virtual setting and engaged 98 adults. We trained 46 adults in the youth mental health first aid program and 64 adults in qpr (question, persuade, refer) training.impact measurement surveys showed that speakup! Has made a positive measurable impact. As a result of speakup!, 91% of participants realized they are not alone in their feelings or experiences, 84% are more willing to ask for help, and they know where to turn. 90% of adults have a more positive view of students and 80% of students have a more positive view of adults. 91% of participants will use what they learned as speakup! To build stronger relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th 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: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.1% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $884K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.