Florida · Nonprofit
MISSION TALK INC
MISSION TALK INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,984 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mission Talk Inc does
Mission
To equip practitioners of community transformation work
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Faith-Based Education and Leadership Development: Mission Talk equips Latino evangelical pastors and lay leaders to integrate faith and justice in their ministries through education, leadership training, and community formation. In 2024, the organization continued its Justice Leadership Development for Community Transformation program, a structured initiative providing workshops, mentoring, and experiential learning for church leaders committed to social transformation. Activities included an educational immersion in Montgomery, Alabama, where Central Florida faith leaders explored Black history through site visits and reflection sessions; the Celebrate Justice Convening and Recognition Dinner at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, which brought together program participants, honored legacy leadership with the Streams of Justice Awards, and premiered A Chronicle on Latino Evangelicals Engaging with Black History by Mission Talk Films; and an August Pastors' Retreat that offered rest, renewal, and peer connection for leaders advancing justice-focused ministry. These efforts strengthened the capacity of more than 150 pastors and community leaders to apply social-justice principles in…
$254,706 spent67% of program spendingFaith-Based Advocacy and Public Engagement: Mission Talk advances civic engagement and collective advocacy among Latino evangelical communities throughout Florida. In February 2024, the organization partnered with FRACEEV to coordinate transportation and participation for over 500 bishops, pastors, and lay leaders traveling on chartered buses to the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. The gathering combined prayer, education, and advocacy around issues impacting immigrant and working-class families. Participants attended training sessions on effective community organizing and strengthened inter-church collaboration for equitable public policy. This initiative promoted informed civic participation and faith-driven advocacy consistent with Mission Talk's mission of empowering towards community transformation
$32,191 spent8% of program spendingOrganizational Capacity Building and Strategic Planning: Mission Talk invests in strategic planning and leadership development to ensure the long-term sustainability of its programs. In July 2024, the organization convened core team leaders, advisors, and pastors and church leaders, current, past, and future participants of the Justice Leadership Development program, for a comprehensive strategic planning and listening session. The meeting assessed lessons learned from the program's first year, identified capacity-building needs, and established a multi-year roadmap focused on sustainability, leadership cultivation, and collaborative partnerships. Input from community pastors shaped the resulting strategy to strengthen Mission Talk's statewide impact and alignment with its mission of faith-based community transformation.
$94,816 spent25% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $381,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $69k to $2.6M (+3627%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of MISSION TALK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $44k → $440k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MISSION TALK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MISSION TALK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MISSION TALK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 80% · 2022 53% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of MISSION TALK INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 21% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MISSION TALK INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MISSION TALK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MISSION TALK INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION TALK INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSION TALK INC?
- MISSION TALK INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,984 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION TALK INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,568,984 in grants to MISSION TALK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION TALK INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION TALK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing