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BAPTIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES OF GEORGIA

EIN 58-0969850 HIAWASSEE, GA

Revenue 2025
$5,219,669
Expenses 2025
$6,639,845

Program services were 75.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
89 HIAWASSEE PARK DR

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

TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF ACTIVE AGING ADULTS BY EMPOWERING EACH INDIVIDUAL TO FLOURISH THROUGH A HOLISTIC APPROACH OF THE DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS WITHIN A NURTURING CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF ACTIVE AGING ADULTS BY EMPOWERING EACH INDIVIDUAL TO FLOURISH THROUGH A HOLISTIC APPROACH OF THE DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS WITHIN A NURTURING, CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES BELOW MARKET INDEPENDENT LIVING AT OUR TWO LOCATIONS: HIAWASSEE PARK IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH GEORGIA; AND PALMETTO PARK IN PALMETTO, GEORGIA.

  • HOUSING: THE COMMUNITIES, DBA IGNITE LIVING, PROVIDES HOUSING SERVICES TO SENIOR ADULTS.WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF LIFE AND FAITH THAT VALUES EACH INDIVIDUAL AND THEIR UNIQUE WORTH AND CONTRIBUTION THEY BRING US. WE LAUGH, PLAY, PRAY, SING, DANCE, AND BREAK BREAD TOGETHER. WE TEACH ONE ANOTHER FROM THE WELLSPRING OF OUR VAST AND VARIED LIFE JOURNEYS AS WE CONTINUE TO LEARN AND GROW. WE SHARE OUR STORIES, AND MAKE NEW MEMORIES. WE CULTIVATE OUR MINDS, STRENGTHEN OUR BODIES, AND CARE FOR OUR SOULS. WE ARE NOT JUST STAFF; WE ARE FAMILY. WE ARE NOT JUST NEIGHBORS; WE ARE FRIENDS AND PARTNERS THROUGH THIS EXTRAORDINARY PART OF OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER.

    Expenses $2,952,552 · Revenue $3,559,778

  • RESIDENT SERVICES: THE COMMUNITIES, DBA IGNITE LIVING, PROVIDES DINING, MINISTRIES AND OTHER SERVICES TO SENIOR ADULTS.

    Expenses $2,041,271 · Revenue $1,103,602

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.

  • Rev Stephen Awtrey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Crystal Bice

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Judy Hayes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Thomas Hammond Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Rev Darren Hughes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jeff Kemper

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Rev Robert Louder

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Alicia Miller

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jerry Nichols

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Paul Stegenga

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Chip Thompson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Vernon Thornton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Tim Wilson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Shannon Watson

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $246,660
    From this org
    $227,612
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,048
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $220,649
    Bonus
    $6,963
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,491
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,557
    Filer's total
    $246,660
  • Sharalene Roper

    COO

    Total calculated
    $218,429
    From this org
    $209,819
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,610
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,765
    Bonus
    $6,054
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,610
    Filer's total
    $218,429

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
    $5,219,669
    Expenses
    $6,639,845
    Contributions
    $358,766
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,576,935
    Expenses
    $6,642,357
    Contributions
    $111,080
    Grants paid
    $1,505
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,049,486
    Expenses
    $6,461,811
    Contributions
    $869,721
    Grants paid
    $1,271
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $34,552,574
    Expenses
    $7,161,459
    Contributions
    $33,680,697
    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
    $4,332,390
    Expenses
    $5,932,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,841,511
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,016,684
    Expenses
    $5,015,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,457,226
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,510,226
    Expenses
    $6,037,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,570,919
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,469,041
    Expenses
    $4,162,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,958,528
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,495,331
    Expenses
    $4,257,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,861,386
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,191,113
    Expenses
    $4,250,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,116,656
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,209,498
    Expenses
    $4,723,004
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,938,782
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,243,335
    Expenses
    $4,681,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,433,391
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,944,417
    Expenses
    $4,108,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,132,674

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.

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

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

Declared as related by

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 SOUNK.

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.