Kansas · Nonprofit
Speak Up Inc
Speak Up Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,586 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $0
What Speak Up Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide mental health education and to promote mental wellness to students, parents and the community to eliminate stigma and suicide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Outreach: Community outreach is done through a paid contractor position who works with schools in the initial stages of mental wellness. This is done through programming for students, teachers and parent groups. It includes presentations on signs of suicide, local mental health resources, mental wellness, as well as providing Jason Flatt Act training to many schools. This position acts as a resource at hundreds of mental health and wellness events throughout the KC metro area to educate the public on signs of suicide and mental wellness.
$240,273 spentof which $238,054 as grants64% of program spendingSources of Strength: Sources of Strength is a best practice youth suicide prevention project designed to harness the power of peer social networks to change unhealthy norms and culture, ultimately preventing suicide, bullying, and substance abuse. It helps promote help-seeking behaviors and promoting connections between peers and caring adults. The Sources of Strength program is implemented by training adult advisors and peer leaders.
$52,336 spentof which $52,336 as grants14% of program spendingScholarships: Providing scholarships to students who have been part of the school mental health programs and are focusing on mental health in college.
$81,000 spentof which $81,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $373,609.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $301k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $86.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Speak Up 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
Speak Up Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Speak Up Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of Speak Up Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Speak Up 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Speak Up 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 Up Inc?
- Speak Up Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,586 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Speak Up Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $103,586 in grants to Speak Up Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Speak Up Inc?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Speak Up Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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