Tennessee · Nonprofit
SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES
SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $494,120 to it, the largest being THE SHULTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $494k
- Net assets
- $281k
What Speaking Louder Ministries does
Mission
Declaring the hope of jesus throughout the world with music, testimony, and service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Speaking louder provided assistance to widows and orphans, and those with extreme poverty. Slm helped with funds for delivery of food and medical supplies. A home for the elderly in a leper colony and a community center was constructed with the house on the rock campaign for india.
$42,198 spentof which $29,050 as grants81% of program spendingSlm was honored to send quick aid to those devastated by the flooding from back to back hurricanes inflorida, north carolina, and tennessee.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,198.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $113k to $359k (+218%).
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 SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $25k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES’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
SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 83% · 2023 99% — 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
SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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
SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
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 SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES: 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 SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES?
- SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $494,120 to it, the largest being THE SHULTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $494,120 in grants to SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES?
- THE SHULTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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