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SPIRIT OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

EIN 58-2031848 CHATTANOOGA, TN

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Revenue 2024
$1,406,299
Expenses 2024
$1,580,680

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 8915

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

Education and motivational speeches

  • Provide educational and motivational speeches to students in conventions, high school assemblies, and local church groups across the United States. Since January 1, 1993, Spirit of America has reached multiplied millions of teenagers in assemblies and through the distribution of their information packets, books, videos, and T-shirts.

    Expenses $1,464,071

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.

  • Dean Sikes

    President

    Total calculated
    $325,928
    From this org
    $325,928
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    65

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $243,259
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $82,669
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $325,928

  • Bill Turner

    SecretaryTreasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gregory Pope

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danny Hall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Loftin

    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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,406,299
    Expenses
    $1,580,680
    Contributions
    $1,406,818
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,256,304
    Expenses
    $1,400,821
    Contributions
    $1,254,971
    Grants paid
    $16,337
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,269,709
    Expenses
    $1,439,883
    Contributions
    $1,267,506
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,135,686
    Expenses
    $1,170,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,027,100

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,697,011
    Expenses
    $983,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,098,296

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $828,182
    Expenses
    $801,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,240

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $842,984
    Expenses
    $822,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $324,421

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $874,767
    Expenses
    $834,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,918

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,358
    Expenses
    $809,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $268,519

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $682,741
    Expenses
    $714,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $270,653

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $628,943
    Expenses
    $772,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,907

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $824,591
    Expenses
    $654,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,637

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $624,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,941

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.