- 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.
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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
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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.
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Rev Stephen AwtreyREV STEPHEN AWTREY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Crystal BiceCRYSTAL BICE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Judy HayesJUDY HAYES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Thomas Hammond JrTHOMAS HAMMOND JR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Rev Darren HughesREV DARREN HUGHES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Jeff KemperJEFF KEMPER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Rev Robert LouderREV ROBERT LOUDER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Alicia MillerALICIA MILLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Jerry NicholsJERRY NICHOLS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Paul StegengaPAUL STEGENGA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Chip ThompsonCHIP THOMPSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Vernon ThorntonVERNON THORNTON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Tim WilsonTIM WILSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Shannon WatsonSHANNON 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
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Sharalene RoperSHARALENE 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $5,219,669
- Expenses
- $6,639,845
- Contributions
- $358,766
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,576,935
- Expenses
- $6,642,357
- Contributions
- $111,080
- Grants paid
- $1,505
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2023
- Revenue
- $6,049,486
- Expenses
- $6,461,811
- Contributions
- $869,721
- Grants paid
- $1,271
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,332,390
- Expenses
- $5,932,802
- Assets (EOY)
- $39,841,511
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,016,684
- Expenses
- $5,015,129
- Assets (EOY)
- $40,457,226
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,510,226
- Expenses
- $6,037,542
- Assets (EOY)
- $40,570,919
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,469,041
- Expenses
- $4,162,108
- Assets (EOY)
- $22,958,528
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,495,331
- Expenses
- $4,257,032
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,861,386
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,191,113
- Expenses
- $4,250,527
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,116,656
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,209,498
- Expenses
- $4,723,004
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,938,782
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,243,335
- Expenses
- $4,681,163
- Assets (EOY)
- $26,433,391
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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
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501(C)(3) · CONVENTION OF CHURCHES · GA
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501(C)(3) · CONVENTION OF CHURCHES · GA
Declared as related by
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On its 2022 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 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.