Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,474,649
- Total expenses
- $3,274,624
- Contributions and grants received
- $3,388,182
- Grants paid
- $437,108
- Program service revenue
- $70,286
- Investment income
- $16,181
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,166,683
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,084,459
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,082,224
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,383,195
- Management and general expenses
- $572,521
- Fundraising expenses
- $318,908
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,383,195
Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$3,388,182
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2a · Program service revenue: Program Consulting Income
total $70,286 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $16,181 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $16,181
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $7,108 · program services $7,108
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $430,000 · program services $430,000
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $153,800 · program services $93,559 · management and general $30,882 · fundraising $29,359
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $46,398 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $46,398
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,025,079 · program services $798,724 · management and general $94,370 · fundraising $131,985
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $101,550 · program services $78,013 · management and general $11,876 · fundraising $11,661
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $57,162 · program services $38,858 · management and general $6,332 · fundraising $11,972
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $59,864 · program services $0 · management and general $59,864 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $449,514 · program services $420,528 · management and general $28,986 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $97,111 · program services $900 · management and general $21,041 · fundraising $75,170
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13 · Office expenses
total $144,706 · program services $79,109 · management and general $62,621 · fundraising $2,976
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14 · Information technology
total $147,500 · program services $49,149 · management and general $95,343 · fundraising $3,008
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16 · Occupancy
total $99,042 · program services $29,648 · management and general $69,394 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $417,339 · program services $339,289 · management and general $75,048 · fundraising $3,002
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $12,662 · program services $12,362 · management and general $300 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $7,395 · program services $4,388 · management and general $3,007 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $10,508 · program services $0 · management and general $10,508 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: State Charitable Solicitation Registration fees
total $3,676 · program services $0 · management and general $299 · fundraising $3,377
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24b · Other expenses: Membership fees
total $4,210 · program services $1,560 · management and general $2,650 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $175,287 · end of year $244,794
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $542,222 · end of year $1,883,348
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $172,684 · end of year $11,250
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $8,209 · end of year $7,003
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $2,642 · end of year $2,536
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $7,706 · end of year $9,686
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$137,075
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$129,009
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $15,461 · end of year $8,066
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $42,012 · end of year $72,054
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19 · Deferred revenue
end of year $1,012,405
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $160,577 · end of year $222,839
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $721,622 · end of year $859,385
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
Spoken's Mission is "Deliver Truth...Where Written Words Can't Go." Most missiologists will agree that 60-70 percent of the world is populated with "oral learners." Among this population, a person learns best by listening and interacting with stories, songs, dramas, village proverbs, poetry, or dance. If you were to remove the highly literate population of North America and Western Europe, over 80 percent of the global population learns by listening and engaging together with the information. These people, the hardest to reach with the Gospel, need to hear for the first time or in a new way the Truth that will give them life - eternal and life abundant here on earth.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Spoken is passionate about communicating truth to oral cultures (60% of the world's population). A Christian organization, it uses oral learning methodology to produce recorded stories, songs, and dramas in mother tongue languages of various people groups to evangelize, disciple, and train leaders.
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Oral Bible Translation: Oral Bible Translation has moved from pilot status in the past year to full programs. In 2022, 8 additional languages were begun with the goal to provide a full Bible translation in an oral form, without plans to put into a text form. The total number of languages in process now are 11. There are approximately 2,000 languages without any scripture available and it is estimated that as many as 2/3 of these would need an oral Bible, rather than a text Bible because of either no written language available or lack of active readers in the culture. It is our goal to greatly increase our capacity to help meet this overwhelming need.
Expenses $1,281,878 · Grants $7,600
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Pastor/Leader Training: This has become the primary thrust of Spoken Worldwide's overall programs, as directed by our Board. The initial effort here is focused on a small number of national leaders (experienced pastors) in a given people group that work through worldview issues to develop a 3-year program of stories, songs and dramas based on scripture, to disciple and groom leaders. These national leaders then find other prospective leaders to disciple through the same information and the program begins to self-replicate. This allows the program to be launched in an unreached or least-reached people group and through the practical evangelism component that is required, we establish solid, well-trained leaders to guide those that come to faith in the process. Over the course of this 3 year program, we provide a Biblical theology to these leaders so that they are thoroughly equipped to shepherd and disciple a church. Pastor/Leader development programs exist now in seven countries and 37 languages with more coming on this year - over 7,700 leaders are engaged in at least the first year of discipleship. Because of its ease of replication, this creates a disciple-making movement in the countries where we work.
Expenses $412,735 · Grants $40,836
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Community Development: Community Development is our program in partnership with Beyond the Word Ministries, a registered non-profit in Ghana. BTWM has a small FM radio station in north eastern Ghana that broadcasts, among other things, stories based on Scripture and audio recordings of the Bible. They also have a clean water distribution company that bottles and bags clean water for sale in the region. All of their "profits" go to support the radio station and educational facilities for children.
Expenses $384,720 · Grants $384,720
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Orality Coaching: This is one of the fastest growing initiatives of Spoken Worldwide. Please see continued description on Schedule O, Page 1.
Expenses $303,862 · Grants $3,952 · Revenue $70,286
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Ed Weaver
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $158,382
- From this org
- $139,305
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $19,077
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $129,305
- Bonus
- $10,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,638
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,439
- Filer's total
- $158,382
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Neil Rogers
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.75
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Mark Alegnani
Vice Chairman/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.75
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Pete McLain
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Dan Mellema
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Jim Trebilcock
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Susan Wommack
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Andy Wileman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 12 November 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202303179349302420
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