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FRIEND SHIPS

EIN 46-2878325 LAKE CHARLES, LA

Largest nonprofits in Louisiana

Revenue 2024
$1,614,885
Expenses 2024
$929,713

Program services were 98.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50
Classification
1270
Street
1019 N ENTERPRISE 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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Friend Ships provides humanitarian aid, medical services and disaster relief to victims of natural disaster, war and poverty.

  • International: Humanitarian aid to victims of war and the impoverished in the Middle East (SYRIA)

    Expenses $315,235

  • Domestic: Food assistance and disaster relief.

    Expenses $597,393 · Grants $504,464

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Donald H Tipton

    Executive Director, President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Sandra Tipton

    Director, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Teresa Shields

    Director, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Raymond George

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,614,885
    Expenses
    $929,713
    Contributions
    $1,614,885
    Grants paid
    $693,762
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,162,719
    Expenses
    $414,610
    Contributions
    $912,719
    Grants paid
    $194,834
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $195,544
    Expenses
    $326,017
    Contributions
    $195,544
    Grants paid
    $146,619

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
    $1,634,834
    Expenses
    $1,723,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,732,214

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,372,784
    Expenses
    $1,428,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,655,595

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017
Principal officer
Don Tipton
Mailing address
1019 North 1st AvenueLake Charles LA 70601

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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.

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.