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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by T4 GLOBAL INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,402,896
Total expenses
$4,336,120
Contributions and grants received
$4,221,173
Grants paid
$1,646,034
Program service revenue
$118,056
Investment income
$63,287
Other revenue
$380
Total assets, end of year
$2,082,712
Total liabilities, end of year
$933,712
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,149,000
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,302,967
Management and general expenses
$551,188
Fundraising expenses
$481,965
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,302,967

Program services were 76.2% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,221,173

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Consulting Income

    total $118,056 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $63,287 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $63,287

  • 11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous Income

    total $380 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $380

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $380

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $43,157 · program services $43,157

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $1,602,877 · program services $1,602,877

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $165,144 · program services $85,797 · management and general $19,347 · fundraising $60,000

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $46,803 · program services $1,000 · management and general $0 · fundraising $45,803

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,153,880 · program services $898,314 · management and general $98,363 · fundraising $157,203

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $122,472 · program services $99,592 · management and general $12,391 · fundraising $10,489

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $72,860 · program services $50,089 · management and general $6,634 · fundraising $16,137

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $2,087 · program services $0 · management and general $2,087 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $73,378 · program services $0 · management and general $73,378 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $121,796 · program services $106,797 · management and general $14,999 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $156,203 · program services $0 · management and general $23,939 · fundraising $132,264

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $164,685 · program services $82,863 · management and general $80,571 · fundraising $1,251

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $141,716 · program services $57,230 · management and general $81,939 · fundraising $2,547

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $76,941 · program services $8,286 · management and general $60,369 · fundraising $8,286

  • 17 · Travel

    total $354,648 · program services $246,652 · management and general $63,812 · fundraising $44,184

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $16,058 · program services $15,661 · management and general $397 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $6,902 · program services $4,652 · management and general $2,250 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $10,712 · program services $0 · management and general $10,712 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: State Charitable Solicitation Registration fees

    total $3,801 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $3,801

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $244,794 · end of year $139,670

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,883,348 · end of year $1,496,635

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $11,250 · end of year $96,303

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $7,003 · end of year $18,514

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $2,536 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $9,686 · end of year $10,133

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $85,005

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $78,696

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $8,066 · end of year $6,309

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $315,148

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $72,054 · end of year $77,767

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,012,405 · end of year $505,559

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    end of year $350,386

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $222,839 · end of year -$14,584

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $859,385 · end of year $1,163,584

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Spokens Mission is Deliver Truth...Where Written Words Cant Go. Most missiologists will agree that 2/3 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 worlds population). As a Christian organization, it uses oral learning methodology to produce oral bible translation recordings and recorded stories, songs, and dramas based on biblical passages in mother tongue languages of various people groups to evangelize, disciple, and train leaders.

  • Oral Bible Translation: Oral Bible Translation is our most rapidly growing program. In 2023, 10 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 21. There are approximately 1,000 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 $1,772,764 · Grants $845,913

  • 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 $610,969 · Grants $610,969

  • Orality Coaching: While having developed solid methodologies of communication strategies over the past 18 years, the problem of reaching non-reading cultures is so large that we believe coaching other organizations to recognize these issues, develop a strategic plan and execute on that plan is a way to move toward the goal of solving the issue without putting undue strain on the resources of Spoken. Now in the 8th year of this Coaching Program, we have codified our methodology and have begun equipping other organizations to use it. Currently, we have 24 new partners and are working in over 130 different languages. As partner ministries begin to see their success in using these methods to deepen their impact where they work, their efforts strengthen, and they begin launching programs of their own.

    Expenses $516,125 · Grants $43,146 · Revenue $118,056

  • Pastor/Leader Training: Please see description on Schedule O, Page 1.

    Expenses $403,109 · Grants $146,006

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ed Weaver

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $165,144
    From this org
    $145,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,843
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,888
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $413
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,843
    Filer's total
    $165,144

  • Brian Whiteaker

    VP Field Operations

    Total calculated
    $116,861
    From this org
    $102,193
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,668
    Hours/week
    40

  • Neil Rogers

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Mark Alegnani

    Vice Chairman/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Pete McLain

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dan Mellema

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jim Trebilcock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Susan Wommack

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • 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.

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Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
7 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403129349302920

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