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BROKEN CHAINS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY

EIN 54-2139891 AKRON, OH

Revenue 2025
$931,954
Expenses 2025
$947,146

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
1270
Street
1080 HILBISH AVE

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).

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.

  • Dennis Shawhan

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $112,529
    From this org
    $109,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,179
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tamela Shawhan

    Director of Operations- Lydias Home

    Total calculated
    $57,100
    From this org
    $57,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kurt Cox

    Volunteer Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $49,400
    From this org
    $49,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charles Baldwin

    Business Manager

    Total calculated
    $46,021
    From this org
    $46,021
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kenneth Anderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Garmier

    Secretary of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Hofer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christine Cox

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Janet Guthrie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vickie Mizell

    Board Member

    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
    $931,954
    Expenses
    $947,146
    Contributions
    $474,016
    Grants paid
    $43,988
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $947,558
    Expenses
    $904,768
    Contributions
    $518,705
    Grants paid
    $39,866
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $930,524
    Expenses
    $926,077
    Contributions
    $521,114
    Grants paid
    $58,966
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $835,993
    Expenses
    $850,150
    Contributions
    $415,681
    Grants paid
    $43,736

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
    $1,011,124
    Expenses
    $910,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $447,360

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $860,844
    Expenses
    $842,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $353,504

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,105
    Expenses
    $234,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $285,701

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $220,254
    Expenses
    $246,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,740

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,112
    Expenses
    $198,870
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,611

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $193,933
    Expenses
    $167,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,497

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $331,033
    Expenses
    $331,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,281

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $263,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,954

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $178,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,480

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 2010, reinstated 15 January 2011.

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