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ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION

EIN 87-2083797 BRENTWOOD, TN

Revenue 2025
$1,271,533
Expenses 2025
$653,848

Program services were 69.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
1000
Street
1250 OLD HICKORY BLVD

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION IS A MINISTRY BY, WITH, AND FOR OLDER ADULTS PROVIDING QUALITY RESOURCES AND COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS EMPOWERING OLDER ADULTS TO EXPERIENCE GRACE-FILLED LIVES

  • ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION PROVIDES TRAINING AND SUPPORT, RESOURCES, AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES TO EQUIP CHURCH LEADERS FOR INTENTIONAL MINISTRY BY, WITH, AND FOR OLDER ADULTS. TO MEET THE NEEDS OF AN AGING POPULATION, ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION PROVIDES: - ONE ON ONE CONSULTATION - TRAINING AND SUPPORT IN OLDER ADULT MINISTRIES - RESOURCES THAT HELP ESTABLISH OR BUILD OLDER ADULT MINISTRIES - MATCHING GRANT FUNDING - WORKSHOPS FOR CONGREGATIONS AND OTHER FAITH-BASED NONPROFITS - NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH OTHER OLDER ADULT MINISTRY TEAM

    Expenses $454,695

  • ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOGA NURSING PROGRAM, LAUNCHED AN AGE-FRIENDLY CONGREGATION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM CONSISTS OF EIGHT TRAINING SESSIONS WHICH DISCUSS HEALTHY AGING, SPIRITUAITY, SOCIAL INCLUSION, INTERGENERATIONAL CONNECTION, MINISTRY MODELS, AND MORE. SESSIONS WERE AVAILABLE ONLINE OR IN PERSON. PARTICIPANTS JOIN OTHER CONGREGATIONAL LEADERS IN INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION AND GROUP CONVERSATION, ENDING IN A PRACTICUM IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANT DESCRIBES HOW THEIR CONGREGATION IS, OR IS IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING, AN AGE-FRIENDLY CONGREGATION.

  • GRANTS MADE BY ENCORE MINISTRY FOUNDATION HELPED FUND A VARIETY OF PROJECTS BENEFITTING OLDER ADULTS. GRANTS GIVEN IN 2025 SUPPORTED: - THE FUNDING OF A FOOD MINISTRY PROGRAM, OF WHICH 1/3 TO 1/2 OF THE RECIPIENTS ARE OVER THE AGE OF 65. - AN EXERCISE PROGRAM THAT OFFERED PARTICIPANTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THEIR PHYSICAL HEALTH WHILE FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY - A PROGRAM FOR SENIORS AGES 70-90 TO GATHER FOR FELLOWSHIP, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SPIRITUAL FORMATION, AND NUTRITIOUS MEALS. - FOOD PANTRY AND OTHER PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE ESSENTIAL NEEDS AND SERVICES TO SENIORS FACING ISOLATION, MEDICAL CHALLENGES, AND EMOTIONAL STRAIN

    Grants $196,900

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.

  • JOHN RIVAS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $78,333
    From this org
    $78,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • RICHARD GENTZLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $66,667
    From this org
    $66,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CINDY SOLOMON

    OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $39,936
    From this org
    $39,936
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES HEWGLEY

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLIFF STEGER

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TOM ADKINSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID MORGAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COURTNEY LAWSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH CARTY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIE C KING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANICE BOYKO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL LORANCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE ENGLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA HARPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AL PARTEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA WEST SCHUMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED TRIMMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED VAN VOORHEES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN COLLETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAY BOWERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SONNYE DIXON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUCI CROMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAT BRANDENSTEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL WHEELER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NEIL DOBSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,271,533
    Expenses
    $653,848
    Contributions
    $1,170,234
    Grants paid
    $196,900

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.

Grants made

  • FIRST UMC COLUMBIA

    $15,000

    2025

  • LAFAYETTE UMC

    $15,000

    2025

  • CALVERT CITY UMC

    $10,000

    2025

  • CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

    $10,000

    2025

  • COOKS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

    $10,000

    2025

  • FIRST UMC WOODBURY

    $10,000

    2025

  • FOREST HILLS UMC

    $10,000

    2025

  • GORDON MEMORIAL UMC

    $10,000

    2025

  • LAWRENCEBURG FIRST UMC

    $10,000

    2025

  • ST MARKS UMC

    $10,000

    2025

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

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.