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SPEAK UP FOR THE POOR

EIN 27-0094780 PASADENA, CA

Revenue 2024
$769,874
Expenses 2024
$680,266

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q70
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 5595

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

Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.

  • Our Girls Education Program began in 2012 with 20 girls. Today it supports over 2000 girls in more than 30 villages and slums in rural Bangladesh. These girls are among the poorest and most marginalized people in an already impoverished country. Our program provides daily tutoring books and school supplies and monthly education seminars. Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage in the world for girls under 15 and without intervention these girls are at risk of being married and dropping out of school. Our GEP seeks to break the cycle of poverty and child marriage by giving girls the means to stay in school. Working with families and communities we are building a new understanding of the potential for educated girls and are seeking to transform the way entire regions think about poor girls.

    Expenses $449,455

  • As part of our Girls Education Program we operate dorms where girls from the remote villages can come pursue higher education. All of our occupancy expenses relate to the buildings which house the dorms. The dorms also provide a safe place for girls to come and stay in emergency situations such as abuse or immediate threat of child marriage.

    Expenses $134,330

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Troy Anderson

    International Director and Board Member

    Total calculated
    $70,000
    From this org
    $70,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Deborah Maddocks

    CFO and Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bradley Bursch

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Paula Kendrick

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kathryn Christie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Samuel Girguis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Allison Hoekstra Weber

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Hillary McBride

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $769,874
    Expenses
    $680,266
    Contributions
    $768,585
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $702,117
    Expenses
    $699,327
    Contributions
    $701,420
    Grants paid
    $2,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $670,158
    Expenses
    $705,042
    Contributions
    $669,899
    Grants paid
    $18,484

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $680,569
    Expenses
    $599,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,289

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $579,522
    Expenses
    $526,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,181

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,813
    Expenses
    $509,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,605

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.