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SOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 72-0696092 NEW IBERIA, LA

Revenue 2025
-$1,576,180
Expenses 2025
$514,100

Program services were 66.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S320
Classification
1000
Street
3602 OLD JEANERETTE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc.s mission is to build strong, healthy and prosperous rural communities, with a special emphasis on women, low-income families and people of color.

  • RURAL RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT SMHAs Rural Recovery and Development program provides assessment, planning, relief, recovery, and comprehensive redevelopment in economically distressed and disaster-impacted rural communities, including new construction of homes and renovation of homes, preservation of home ownership, promotion of new home ownership, provision of affordable housing for low and moderate-income families, leadership development through training and technical assistance, and facilitating conversations, cooperation and understanding among varied stakeholders. The program also includes addressing environmental concerns and assisting farmers and fishers with socio-economic challenges.

    Expenses $341,390

  • Teche Ridge - Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc.s (SMHAs) Teche Ridge was sold in June 2025.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lorna Bourg

    President

    Total calculated
    $265,327
    From this org
    $258,855
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,472
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $258,855
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,472
    Filer's total
    $265,327
  • Juanita Mainster

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ashley Shelton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Roberta Madden

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Judith V Herring

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Senator Fred Mills

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Martha Moore

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    -$1,576,180
    Expenses
    $514,100
    Contributions
    $2,101,052
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $228,732
    Expenses
    $621,140
    Contributions
    $219,771
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $471,290
    Expenses
    $1,074,480
    Contributions
    $163,220
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $814,351
    Expenses
    $1,312,157
    Contributions
    $486,799
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $898,903
    Expenses
    $1,148,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,015,178
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,117,837
    Expenses
    $1,177,640
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,410,789
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,430,867
    Expenses
    $2,196,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,139,727
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,269,588
    Expenses
    $2,185,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,055,385
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $697,605
    Expenses
    $1,462,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,226,770
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,243,269
    Expenses
    $1,666,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,068,781
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,345,978
    Expenses
    $1,461,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,868,129
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $697,504
    Expenses
    $1,560,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,137,064
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,514,566
    Expenses
    $2,584,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,932,594
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,807,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,310,448

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • TECHE RIDGE LLC

    HOME DEVELOPMENT · LA · income -$1 · assets -$1

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.