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Speak the Word Ministry Foundation at a glance

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Speak the Word Ministry Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$63k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$373kHuman Services$245kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$972k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Joy MInistries$20,000
Rock Church International$14,000
Watchmen Broadcasting$10,000
Rock Church of Hampton$6,000
Recovery for the City Intl Inc$5,000
Kenneth Cole Ministries$5,000
Calvary Assembly of God$1,957
Union Wesley AME Church$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Watchman Broadcasting: $5k → 17%Union Wesley AME Church: $5k → 14%WTKO Radio: $9k → 12%Kenneth Cole Ministries: $8k → 13%Kenneth Cole MInistries: $5k → 15%ST James AME Zion Church: $10k → 20%Prakash Ministries: $3k → 7%Joyous House Church: $3k → 9%Mt Pleasant Mennonite Church: $10k → 9%Cape Henry Church: $9k → 10%Rock Church of Hampton: $11k → 14%New Rock Church: $4k → 16%New Harvest Church: $30k → 17%WTKO Radio: $7k → 12%Kenneth Cole MInistries: $6k → 13%New Harvest Church: $35k → 20%Recovery for the City Intl Inc: $5k → 10%Rock Church Hampton: $10k → 14%New Harvest Church: $52k → 17%WTKO Radio: $5k → 12%Kenneth Cole Ministries: $6k → 13%Union Wesley AME Zion Church: $5k → 20%Christian Embassy Inter'l Church: $3k → 9%Cape Henry Church: $8k → 10%Rock Church Hampton: $7k → 14%New Harvest Church: $13k → 17%WTKO Radio: $2k → 12%Kenneth Cole Ministries: $5k → 13%Union Wesley AME Church: $4k → 20%Lions Voice Ministries: $2k → 9%Prakash Ministries: $5k → 10%Rock Church of Hampton: $6k → 14%Rock CHurch Hampton: $15k → 17%Kenneth Cole Ministries: $3k → 13%Rones Chapel Area Community Center: $2k → 20%Trinity Faith Center: $2k → 9%Global Outreach Church: $4k → 10%Rock Church of Hampton: $6k → 14%Union Wesley AME Church: $2k → 20%Joy Ministries: $169k → 10%Joy Ministries: $27k → 10%Rock Church International: $25k → 10%Joy Ministries: $22k → 10%Joy MInistries: $20k → 10%Joy Ministries: $15k → 10%Rock Church International: $14k → 10%Joy Ministries: $12k → 10%Calvary Assembly of God: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$603k · 12 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$603k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+243%

Still filing today

17%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
ReligionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JM
    JOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $265k · revenue -16%
  • NH
    New Harvest Church
    4× · 2021–2024 · $130k
  • RC
    Rock Church International
    2× · 2025–2026 · $39k

Funded once

  • AC
    ARTESIA CITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SJ
    ST JAMES A M E ZION CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MP
    Mt Pleasant Mennonite Church
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $265,400 · OtherJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOCNew Harvest Church: $130,000 · OtherNew Harvest ChurchRock Church International: $39,000 · OtherRock Church InternationalKenneth Cole Ministries: $32,500 · OtherRock CHurch Hampton: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $23,000 · OtherRock Church of Hampton: $23,000 · Other+19 more: $114,979 · Other+19 morePRAKASH MINISTRIES: $11,500 · ReligionDANETTE CRAWFORD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionRecovery for the City: $5,000 · HealthRones Chapel Area Community Center: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$659,879Religion$16,500Health$5,000Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $265,400 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetPRAKASH MINISTRIES: $11,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDANETTE CRAWFORD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRones Chapel Area Community Center: $2,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds PRAKASH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DANETTE CRAWFORD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Recovery for the City ↗
  • Who funds Rones Chapel Area Community Center ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Speak the Word Ministry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speak the Word Ministry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Speak the Word Ministry Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Speak the Word Ministry Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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