- Revenue 2024
- $5,688,183
- Expenses 2024
- $5,255,123
Program services were 77.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P20
- Classification
- 1270
- Street
- 12801 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 1030
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
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.
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Oral Bible Translation: Oral Bible Translation is our most rapidly growing program. In 2024, 20 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 34. There are approximately 750 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 $2,301,766 · Grants $1,179,953
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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 northeastern 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 $804,800 · Grants $804,800
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Orality Coaching: While having developed solid methodologies of communication strategies over the past 19 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 9th 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 $524,501 · Grants $105,520 · Revenue $95,151
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Pastor/Leader Training: Please see description on Schedule O, Page 1.
Expenses $382,944 · Grants $154,054
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Oral Discipleship: Please see description on Schedule O, Page 1.
Expenses $47,390 · Grants $7,522
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Ed Weaver
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $174,144
- From this org
- $150,827
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,317
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $145,452
- Bonus
- $5,000
- Other
- $375
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $23,317
- Filer's total
- $174,144
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Ted Crump
Director of Development
- Total calculated
- $133,322
- From this org
- $101,639
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,683
- Hours/week
- 40
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Dave Thomas
Chief Operating Officer
- Total calculated
- $130,240
- From this org
- $114,889
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,351
- Hours/week
- 40
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Brian Whiteaker
VP Field Operations
- Total calculated
- $121,868
- From this org
- $112,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,868
- Hours/week
- 40
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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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,688,183
- Expenses
- $5,255,123
- Contributions
- $5,526,517
- Grants paid
- $2,251,849
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,402,896
- Expenses
- $4,336,120
- Contributions
- $4,221,173
- Grants paid
- $1,646,034
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2022
- Revenue
- $3,474,649
- Expenses
- $3,274,624
- Contributions
- $3,388,182
- Grants paid
- $437,108
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,295,946
- Expenses
- $2,299,679
- Assets (EOY)
- $924,211
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,345,811
- Expenses
- $1,641,837
- Assets (EOY)
- $913,729
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
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$68,000
2024 Oral Bible Translation
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$42,178
2024 Oral Bible Translation
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$20,992
2024 Oral Bible Translation
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$20,457
2023 Oral Bible Translation
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$18,735
2024 Orality Coaching
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Antioch Ministries International
$15,599
2024 Oral Bible Translation
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$9,535
2023 Orality Coaching
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$6,740
2023 Oral Bible Translation
Grants received
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NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$1,571,459
2022 POVERTY
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$454,174
2024 BIBLE TRANSLATION
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2024 HUMAN SERVICE
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2022 EDUCATIONAL
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2023 POVERTY
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$130,000
2023 BIBLE TRANSLATION
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2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2024 BIBLE TRANSLATION
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$100,000
2022 BIBLE TRANSLATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.