Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out

Analysis

Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out is a registered charity in United States, based in Weeping Water, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out reported income of $76k and spending of $126k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $106k to $76k (-29%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Daniel B Allanoff Foundation Inc ($76k), Speech Academie Etalon International by R a Snezhko Inc ($76k) and International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Resea ($76k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 27% of the total. At year end it held assets of $27k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $27k.