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SHEPHERDS ARMS RESCUE MISSION INC

EIN 62-1617005 CHATTANOOGA, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2024
$601,146
Expenses 2024
$762,838

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P85
Classification
1700
Street
PO BOX 16758

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

PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PRESENT JESUS CHRIST TO THE HOMELESS, UNEMPLOYED, AND DESTITUTE COMMUNITY OF CHATTANOOGA'S INNER CITY AND AROUND THE WORLD; TO PROVIDE EDUCATION WHICH RE-DEFINES SELF WORTH ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES; TO OFFER TEMPORARY SHELTER, PHYSICAL FOOD, AND CHRISTIAN COUNSELING UNTIL CLIENTS CAN BE INTEGRATED BACK INTO SOCIETY AS RESOURCEFUL INDIVIDUALS,FULFILLING THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE CREATED.

  • PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PRESENT JESUS CHRIST TO THE HOMELESS, UNEMPLOYED, AND DESTITUTE COMMUNITY OF CHATTANOOGA'S INNER CITY AND AROUND THE WORLD; TO PROVIDE EDUCATION WHICH RE-DEFINES SELF WORTH ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES; TO OFFER TEMPORARY SHELTER, PHYSICAL FOOD, AND CHRISTIAN COUNSELING UNTIL CLIENTS CAN BE INTEGRATED BACK INTO SOCIETY AS RESOURCEFUL INDIVIDUALS,FULFILLING THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE CREATED.

    Expenses $707,806 · Grants $80,494

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.

  • Jimmy D Sanders

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $83,824
    From this org
    $64,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,862
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Mary Anna Sanders

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vivian G Gillette

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Barry Watson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frank Bodine

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Ann Sanders

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $83,824
    From this org
    $64,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,862
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charlene Schwenk

    SECRETARY

    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
    $601,146
    Expenses
    $762,838
    Contributions
    $601,138
    Grants paid
    $80,494
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $690,084
    Expenses
    $702,270
    Contributions
    $690,073
    Grants paid
    $78,349
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $723,783
    Expenses
    $698,438
    Contributions
    $723,769
    Grants paid
    $89,071

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
    $687,222
    Expenses
    $664,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,909,818

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $664,178
    Expenses
    $739,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,905,828

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $686,873
    Expenses
    $705,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,001,558

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $534,363
    Expenses
    $632,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,985,671

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,841
    Expenses
    $528,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,077,102

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,985
    Expenses
    $386,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,143,255

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $990,250
    Expenses
    $395,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,789,304

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,623
    Expenses
    $359,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,194,785

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $323,788
    Expenses
    $322,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,190,718

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $322,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,172,256

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.