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SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES

EIN 46-5165037 CHULA VISTA, CA

Revenue 2024
$418,259
Expenses 2024
$318,688

Program services were 86.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 6272

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

SERVING ORPHANS & WIDOWS MINISTRIES PROVIDES ASSISTANCE FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN AND WIDOWED WOMEN IN DIRE NEED. WE DO THIS BY PROVIDING LIFE SUSTAINING RESOURCES AS WELL AS ASSISTING WITH IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE BY ASSISTING WITH EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS WELL AS SPECIAL PROJECTS.

  • THE BLESSING CHILDREN'S HOME CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT: THIS INCLUDES THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, LABOR, MATERIALS, TOOLS AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO BEGIN BUILDING AND SECURING THE BLESSING CHILDREN'S HOME PROPERTY.\ INCLUDING THE WATER WELL REPAIR, ROAD IMPROVEMENT, CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE 3 CHAMBER SEPTIC SYSTEM, FENCING A PORTION OF THE LAND, ADDING A MODULAR HOME, ADDING A WATER TANK AND PUMP AS WELL AS A SOLAR SYSTEM FOR THE DIRECTORS HOUSE AND MISSIONS DORMS.

    Expenses $130,494

  • ORPHANAGE & WIDOW ASSISTANCE: THIS CATEGORY PROVIDES VALUABLE ASSISTANCE TO APPROX. 150 CHILDREN LIVING IN 5 DIFFERENT ORPHANAGES THAT WE SERVE. WE HELP FILL IN THE GAPS AND PROVIDE THE NECESSARY RESOURCES SO THEY CAN ENSURE THE NEEDS OF THESE CHILDREN ARE MET. OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS MAKING SURE THE KIDS ARE FED, CLOTHED AND HAVE THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES NEEDED FOR SCHOOL. IN ADDITION, WE ASSIST WITH PAYING MONTHLY BILLS FOR ELECTRICITY, GAS & WATER AS NEEDED.

    Expenses $57,690

  • HOSTING MISSIONS TEAMS AND SERVICE GROUPS: THIS CATEGORY INCLUDES DORMS, MEALS, HIRING LOCALS TO COOK, CLEAN AND ASSIST WITH TEAMS. TEAMS COVER THIS COST IN ADVANCE THROUGH THEIR DONATIONS AND WE PAY OUT THESE EXPENSES SO THEY HAVE AN EXCELLENT UNIQUE MISSIONS/SERVICE EXPERIENCE.

    Expenses $9,695

  • OTHER

    Expenses $78,843

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.

  • BOB GIBBS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GINA MCLEMORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRAVIS G OWEN

    OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • GEORGE PARENTI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WALT YOCUM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMBER OWEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $418,259
    Expenses
    $318,688
    Contributions
    $414,181
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $428,429
    Expenses
    $306,151
    Contributions
    $428,425
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $416,588
    Expenses
    $328,270
    Contributions
    $414,182
    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
    $336,414
    Expenses
    $340,249
    Assets (EOY)
    $407,229

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,121
    Expenses
    $109,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $418,351

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $183,552
    Expenses
    $107,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $328,328

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $164,753
    Expenses
    $84,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $248,514

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $227,405
    Expenses
    $82,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $168,645

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Travis Owen
Mailing address
PO Box 6272Chula Vista CA 91909
Website
www.sowministries.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.