- 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.
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RURAL COMMUNITIES INC
EIN 62-1277091
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SOUTHERN MUTUAL FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
EIN 72-1462016
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SOUTHERN MUTUAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
EIN 72-1322831
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SOUTHERN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
EIN 72-1053989
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.
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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
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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.
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Lorna BourgLORNA 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
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Juanita MainsterJUANITA MAINSTER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ashley SheltonASHLEY SHELTON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Roberta MaddenROBERTA MADDEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Judith V HerringJUDITH V HERRING
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Senator Fred MillsSENATOR FRED MILLS
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Martha MooreMARTHA 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
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2025
- Revenue
- -$1,576,180
- Expenses
- $514,100
- Contributions
- $2,101,052
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $228,732
- Expenses
- $621,140
- Contributions
- $219,771
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $471,290
- Expenses
- $1,074,480
- Contributions
- $163,220
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $898,903
- Expenses
- $1,148,628
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,015,178
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,117,837
- Expenses
- $1,177,640
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,410,789
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,430,867
- Expenses
- $2,196,691
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,139,727
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,269,588
- Expenses
- $2,185,424
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,055,385
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $697,605
- Expenses
- $1,462,084
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,226,770
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,243,269
- Expenses
- $1,666,554
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,068,781
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,345,978
- Expenses
- $1,461,941
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,868,129
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $697,504
- Expenses
- $1,560,872
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,137,064
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,514,566
- Expenses
- $2,584,774
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,932,594
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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
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2022 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT & OPERATIONS
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2022 GRANT FUNDS WERE PROVIDED TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF VOTER JUSTICE IN RURAL AREAS IN THE LOUISIANA DELTA.
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2024 SEE PART IV
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2022 SEE PART IV
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2022 DISASTER RELIEF, GENERAL SUPPORT
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
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SOUTHERN MUTUAL FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
501(c)(3) · CDFI · LA · controlled entity
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501(c)(3) · FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · LA
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
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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.