PPS & FOCUS GROUP MINISTRIES INC

EIN 62-1686129 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024: $438,160
Expenses 2024: $535,824

Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: X19
Classification: 1700
Street: 6515 CLINTON HWY STE 214

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

PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL COURSES FOR INMATES IN PRISON AND EX-OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. PROVIDE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR EX-OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. PROVIDE CARE, SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO INMATES AND EX-OFFENDERS

PROVIDE EDUCATION COURSES FOR INMATES IN PRISON AS WELL AS EX-OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. PROVIDE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR EX-OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. PROVIDE CARE, SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO INMATES AND EX-OFFENDERS.

Expenses $520,911

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.

Andy AdkissonANDY ADKISSON

VICE CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Gary BurlesonGARY BURLESON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Michelle CarpenterMICHELLE CARPENTER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Hannah DovanHANNAH DOVAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Maurice GuinnMAURICE GUINN

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Debby HagarDEBBY HAGAR

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jeff HintonJEFF HINTON

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Dr Kristi Miller AndersonDR KRISTI MILLER ANDERSON

CHAIRPERSON

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Sherri OttingerSHERRI OTTINGER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Victoria GlasscockVICTORIA GLASSCOCK

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Tonya ChandlerTONYA CHANDLER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEW

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0

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

$438,160

Expenses

$535,824

Contributions

$371,008

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$438,160

Expenses

$535,824

Contributions

$371,008

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$440,044

Expenses

$544,075

Contributions

$285,152

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$442,190

Expenses

$478,489

Contributions

$330,335

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$438,160	$535,824	$371,008	$0
2024	$438,160	$535,824	$371,008	$0
2023	$440,044	$544,075	$285,152	$0
2022	$442,190	$478,489	$330,335	$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

$1,190,234

Expenses

$632,879

Assets (EOY)

$755,812
2020 · 990

Revenue

$620,693

Expenses

$481,205

Assets (EOY)

$373,435
2019 · 990

Revenue

$444,099

Expenses

$455,933

Assets (EOY)

$212,959

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,190,234	$632,879	$755,812
2020	990	$620,693	$481,205	$373,435
2019	990	$444,099	$455,933	$212,959

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

TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE

$55,000

2022 URGENT NEEDS/GENERAL
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$50,000

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC

$17,500

2024 SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$10,000

2024 PRISON MINISTRY
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$0

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT

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.