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PROJECT HELP OF EAST TENNESSEE INC

EIN 80-0552516 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$248,917
Expenses 2025
$252,758

Program services were 99.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 59017

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 · 2025

Mission

PROVIDES EMERGENCY ENERGY ASSISTANCE WITH ELECTRICITY, NATURAL GAS, PROPANE, HEATING OIL, WOOD, OR COAL FOR FAMILIES ACROSS KNOXVILLE UTILITIES BOARD'S (KUB) SERVICE TERRITORY. The program is administered by the Knoxville Community Action Council (CAC) and KUB.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide emergency energy assistance to needy residents of Knoxville, Tennessee.

  • --PROJECT HELP PROVIDES EMERGENCY ENERGY ASSISTANCE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SERVING ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS DURING THE HEATING SEASON. THIS MEANS PROJECT HELP WILL PROVIDE ELECTRICITY, NATURAL GAS, PROPANE, HEATING OIL, WOOD, OR COAL FOR FAMILIES ACROSS KNOXVILLE UTILITIES BOARD'S (KUB) SERVICE TERRITORY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. --PROJECT HELP DEPENDS SOLELY ON CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FUNDRAISERS. KUB COLLECTS PROJECT HELP DONATIONS AND SENDS 100% OF THE FUNDS TO THE KNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE (CAC), WHICH ADMINISTERS THE PROGRAM. --THE KNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ADMINISTERS PROJECT HELP ASSISTANCE TO ELIGIBLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE ELDERLY, EXPERIENCING JOB LOSS, INJURY, OR DISABILITY. - During 2025, there were 316 grants made through the program to assist individuals and families.

    Expenses $252,396 · Grants $252,396

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Anna Freshour

    Secretary /Treasurer and KUB Representative

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Betsi James

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dale Grubbs

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Adele Sensing

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amie Whitworth

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ashley Ogle

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cindy Winterberger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cj Butcher

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jackie Watson

    Board Member and CAC Representative

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeanie Fox

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Husky

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leslye Hartsell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matt Magrans-Tillery

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Misty Goodwin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sylvia Woods

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Teresa Lawson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tiffany Martin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Veronica Andrews

    Board Member and KUB Representative

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $248,917
    Expenses
    $252,758
    Contributions
    $232,741
    Grants paid
    $252,396
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $232,080
    Expenses
    $208,790
    Contributions
    $220,079
    Grants paid
    $208,464
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $238,696
    Expenses
    $132,770
    Contributions
    $226,638
    Grants paid
    $132,455
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $235,924
    Expenses
    $94,178
    Contributions
    $235,344
    Grants paid
    $93,863

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
    $236,896
    Expenses
    $335,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $344,403
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,798
    Expenses
    $112,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,500
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $189,233
    Expenses
    $115,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,839
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $164,425
    Expenses
    $155,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,680
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $164,425
    Expenses
    $155,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,680
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $159,064
    Expenses
    $102,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,791
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $172,811
    Expenses
    $206,134
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,848
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $143,665
    Expenses
    $88,196
    Assets (EOY)
    $199,171
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $145,585
    Expenses
    $268,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,702
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $137,216
    Expenses
    $80,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,618

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

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 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.