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LAUNCH

EIN 46-2203112 CHATTANOOGA, TN

Revenue 2024
$999,089
Expenses 2024
$1,534,891

Program services were 66.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S43
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 903

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

LAUNCH EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS AND IMPACTS COMMUNITIES THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

  • LAUNCH EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS AND IMPACTS COMMUNITIES THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP. WE WORK TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE THAT ANYONE WITH A BUSINESS DREAM HAS THE TOOLS TO BRING IT TO LIFE, ESPECIALLY THOSE UNDERREPRESENTED IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP. OUR FOCUS IS ON BUSINESSES OWNED BY WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, YOUTH, AND FOOD ENTREPRENEURS.USING OUR COLLECTIVE RESOURCES, RELATIONSHIPS, CREATIVITY, AND BUSINESS EXPERTISE, WE HELP INDIVIDUALS START AND STRENGTHEN THEIR BUSINESSES. WE PROVIDE A SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THOSE WITHOUT ONE, BELIEVING IT IS KEY TO THEIR LONG-TERM SUCCESS. SINCE 2011, LAUNCH HAS SUPPORTED BUSINESSES AND TRACKED THEIR PROGRESS. REMARKABLY, 85% OF THE BUSINESSES WE'VE HELPED ARE STILL OPERATING TODAY.WE ARE CONTINUALLY INSPIRED BY THE ENTREPRENEURS WE WORK WITH. PLEASE CONSIDER INVESTING IN OUR EFFORTS AND PARTNERING WITH US ON THIS EXCITING JOURNEY!

    Expenses $1,014,214 · Grants $5,591 · Revenue $301,101

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • HAL BOWLING

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $131,795
    From this org
    $122,707
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,088
    Hours/week
    40

  • ZAC BROWN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCUS CADE-JOHNSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK FISHER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSEY GALLAHER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • QUENTIN LAWRENCE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULI-ANN MORGAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERNAE JORDAN SR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUIS CONTRERAS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEJUAN JORDAN

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $121,795
    From this org
    $112,707
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,088
    Hours/week
    40

  • MANDY SENN-SIMMONS

    MEMBER

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $999,089
    Expenses
    $1,534,891
    Contributions
    $614,905
    Grants paid
    $5,591
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,594,760
    Expenses
    $1,257,726
    Contributions
    $1,373,193
    Grants paid
    $6,942
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,180,931
    Expenses
    $981,190
    Contributions
    $1,069,051
    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
    $792,532
    Expenses
    $1,038,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $603,999

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $876,031
    Expenses
    $1,045,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $703,571

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,003,661
    Expenses
    $905,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,806

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $880,705
    Expenses
    $694,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $600,382

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,596
    Expenses
    $812,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $411,130

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $649,839
    Expenses
    $779,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $710,866

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $809,219
    Expenses
    $551,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $825,796

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $608,868
    Expenses
    $485,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,120

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $525,153
    Expenses
    $380,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,011

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2014, reinstated 15 May 2014.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.