Texas · Nonprofit
SPEAK OUT INC
SPEAK OUT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Speak Out Inc does
Mission
Bring domestic violence awareness, education, & resources
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
"love yourself first" 5k run/walk - 485 individuals attended this event in person and virtually. The purpose was to bring awareness and resources for domestic abuse/violence
$0 spentSpeak out movie "love shouldn't hurt - reached 3.9k individuals via virtual outlets to show communities and bring awareness and resources.
$0 spentRestart program - assist clients to obtain their ged via weekly schedule classes, assignments, and testing. This is a part of getting our client equiped to with basic educational skills to give them the ability to start maintaining themselves and obtaining jobs to develop self sufficiency. Over 20 clients participated in this program.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $19k to $25k (+29%).
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.
80% of SPEAK OUT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cherlyn Latham
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SPEAK OUT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPEAK OUT INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SPEAK OUT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SPEAK OUT 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPEAK OUT 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 SPEAK OUT INC?
- SPEAK OUT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY ($6,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPEAK OUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,500 in grants to SPEAK OUT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEAK OUT INC?
- THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEAK OUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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