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SOLE HOPE INC

EIN 27-2305440 MOUNT JULIET, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2024
$1,058,811
Expenses 2024
$910,147

Program services were 66.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 929

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 · 2024

Mission

OFFERING HOPE, HEALTHIER LIVES AND FREEDOM FROM FOOT RELATED DISEASES THROUGH EDUCATION, JOBS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.

  • TUNGA PENETRANS, KNOWN AS JIGGERS, ARE SMALL SAND FLEAS THAT BURROW INTO THE BARE FEET OF THOUSANDS OF UGANDAN CHILDREN WHO OFTEN LIVE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT ADEQUATE FOOTWEAR. ALONG WITH A MISCONCEPTION ABOUT THE CAUSE OF JIGGERS, THE RESULTS INCLUDE INFECTION, GANGRENE, LOSS OF MOBILITY AND THE OCCASIONAL AMPUTATION AND EVEN DEATH. SOLE HOPE IS COMBATING THE JIGGER PROBLEM IN UGANDA IN TEN MAJOR DISTRICTS. (1) COMMUNITY CLINICS: EVERY WEEK SOLE HOPE TRANSPORTS A TEAM OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, SOCIAL WORKERS, EDUCATORS AND VOLUNTEERS TO A CLINIC SITE IN VILLAGES, WHERE APPROXIMATELY 150 PATIENTS HAVE THEIR FEET WASHED AND TREATED, AND LATER EACH ONE RECEIVES A PAIR OF SHOES TO PROTECT THEIR FEET AND PREVENT RE-INFESTATION. (2) IN COLLABORATION WITH GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS, SOLE HOPE ALSO ESTABLISHED 5 PARTNER CLINICS IN DISTANT DISTRICTS AND THESE ARE RUN BY GOVERNMENT HEALTH WORKERS TRAINED BY SOLE HOPE IN JIGGER MANAGEMENT. (3) SOLE HOPE'S RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITY POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE HOPE CENTRE, ADMITS AND PROVIDES INPATIENT SERVICES TO SEVERELY INFESTED PATIENTS. ON AVERAGE, 30 PATIENTS ARE ADMITTED PER MONTH.(4) SOLE HOPE RUNS A SHOE WORKSHOP THAT MAKES AN AVERAGE OF 1,700 PAIRS PER MONTH.(5) SOLE HOPE ORGANISES VULNERABLE WOMEN INTO SELF HELP GROUPS AND TRAINS THEM IN INCOME GENERATION AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR PURPOSES OF UPLIFTING THEIR HOUSEHOLD INCOME LEVELS AND BE ABLE TO AFFORD BASIC NEEDS FOR THEIR FAMILIES.(6) SOLE HOPE ESTABLISHED CHILD PROTECTION CLUBS IN SCHOOLS TO TRAIN CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, AND PROMOTE PEER TO PEER LEARNING.

    Expenses $603,338 · Revenue $77

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tory Sherman

    PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Asher Cooley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jessica Falkner

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jen Jordan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tom Lister

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gareth Gilkeson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,058,811
    Expenses
    $910,147
    Contributions
    $668,669
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $670,077
    Expenses
    $579,164
    Contributions
    $657,575
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $426,029
    Expenses
    $790,393
    Contributions
    $425,464
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $922,121
    Expenses
    $747,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,727,477
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $919,894
    Expenses
    $706,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,514,164
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $814,475
    Expenses
    $859,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,348,593
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,306,818
    Expenses
    $1,262,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,382,833
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,432,822
    Expenses
    $1,064,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,386,737
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,360,342
    Expenses
    $791,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,019,536
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $847,746
    Expenses
    $589,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $609,776
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $736,095
    Expenses
    $533,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $332,642
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $378,303
    Expenses
    $357,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,423

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

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

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 2024 return

  • SOLE HOPE UGANDA

    PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND JOBS TO UGANDANS · UG · income $397,753 · assets $1,351,214

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.