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POPULATION WE

EIN 27-0214975 FRANKLIN, TN

Revenue 2025
$292,543
Expenses 2025
$307,137

Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1000
Street
230 FRANKLIN RD STE 121A

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 · 2025

Mission

POPULATION WE IS A COMMUNITY OF COMPASSION JOINED TOGETHER TO BRING THE HOPE OF JESUS TO THE HURTING, BY CONNECTING PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS TO HELP PEOPLE AND RESOURCES THAT CAN HELP THEM HEAL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

POPULATION WE IS A COMMUNITY OF COMPASSION JOINED TOGETHER TO BRING THE HOPE OF JESUS TO THE HURTING, BY CONNECTING PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRTIUAL NEEDS TO HELP PEOPLE AND RESEOURCES THAT CAN HELP THEM HEAL.

  • INJECTED THE HOPE OF JESUS CHRIST INTO PEOPLE'S STORIES BY MEETING THEIR NEEDS AND GUIDED THEM TO THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO HELP THEM HEAL.

    Expenses $290,201 · Grants $80,515

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.

  • JOE WEST

    EXECUTIVE DIR.

    Total calculated
    $97,487
    From this org
    $97,487
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • MATTHEW WEST

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • CHARLES PETERSEN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • DIANE LEEDE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • ARDEAN VELDKAMP

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • JOHN HORTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • SHAREN KING

    VICE PRESIDENT

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $292,543
    Expenses
    $307,137
    Contributions
    $291,594
    Grants paid
    $80,515
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $349,989
    Expenses
    $353,484
    Contributions
    $349,279
    Grants paid
    $110,110
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $249,894
    Expenses
    $310,327
    Contributions
    $248,913
    Grants paid
    $56,193
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $286,065
    Expenses
    $359,995
    Contributions
    $286,054
    Grants paid
    $122,773

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
    $332,646
    Expenses
    $256,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $214,809
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $99,215
    Expenses
    $188,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,170
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $239,238
    Expenses
    $152,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,537
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $188,717
    Expenses
    $152,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,289
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $191,639
    Expenses
    $189,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,447
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $182,688
    Expenses
    $168,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,697
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $215,138
    Expenses
    $193,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,464
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $170,807
    Expenses
    $149,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,711
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $127,359
    Expenses
    $141,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,824
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $121,757
    Expenses
    $71,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,449

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period
1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
Principal officer
Matthew West
Mailing address
1610 17th Avenue South ste 201Nashville TN 37212

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

  • MERCY CHEFS

    $63,000

    2024 FINANCIAL ASSITANCE

  • MERCY CHEFS

    $43,476

    2025 FINANCIAL ASSITANCE

  • 2022

  • THE PRISONER'S HOPE

    $9,000

    2024 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

  • THE PRISONER'S HOPE

    $9,000

    2023 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

  • NEW HEART OF TEXAS MINISTRIES

    $6,200

    2023 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

  • ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE NORTHERN INDIANA

    $6,000

    2024 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

  • TEEN CHALLENGE COLUMBUS OH

    $6,000

    2022

  • TEEN CHALLENGE COLUMBUS OHIO

    $6,000

    2023 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

  • ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE NORTHERN INDIANA

    $5,500

    2023 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.