EMPOWER CHEROKEE OF GA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1200

Street

133 UNIVETER RD

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

• Our services provided:CRA services are provided in a licensed community living arrangement, 24hours/7days per week and target individuals who require intense levels of support. Services are provided in daily and weekly routines that directly relate to each individuals interests, choices and preferences; and will accommodate fluctuations in his/her needs for various supports. Assistance with and/or training activities of daily living skills such as bathing, grooming, other personal hygiene, feeding, toileting and similar tasks; household care such as meal preparation and supervision of nutrition, clothes laundering, bed-making, housecleaning and other similar tasks.Services also include medically related activities such as arranging medical appointments, basic first aid, supervising self-administration of medication, and assisting with therapeutic exercises.These services also consist of implementing behavioral support plans designed for individuals to reduce inappropriate and/or maladaptive behaviors; the ability to intervene if a crisis arises.Transportation is provided to medical appointments, other waiver services and as needed to facilitate the individuals participation in community activities and personal shopping.EC ensures the capacity to support individuals through client/staff ratios (1:4 or as designated in the ISP) that reflect the needs of the individuals; professionals with experience in developmental disabilities that can address the needs of the individuals served; program flexibility to accommodate individual and family needs; and provides on-going training of both staff and individuals served.Individual Service Planning is the development of a plan that identifies personal outcomes, life goals, and needed supports for health, safety, and welfare. Through the use of person-centered practices, we promote self-determination, and exploration of personal outcomes and goals. On an ongoing basis we use person centered tools that help people discover things that are important to and for them, and how people can be best be supported. The plan is always focused on the person and builds on their strengths, gifts and interests. We try to build a One Page Profiles that highlight peoples gifts, talents, and what people appreciate about the person, highlight what is important to them, and how they would like to be supported. This also helps us to match people with the staff that share their interest and would support them best.Community Access Group services are provided in the community or at Empower Cherokee Day Center. Services are individually determined and planned using person-centered tools and approaches to discover the individuals interests, gifts, choices, and what is important to and for the individual. We learn about and listen to the individual, their support needs, health and safety, and their dreams and desires. Their individual plan is created around this foundation. Community Access services are provided outside the individuals place of residence. These services can occur during the day, the evenings, and weekends. Services include design of activities and environments for the participant to learn and/or use adaptive skills required for active community participation and independent functioning. These activities include training in socialization skills as well as personal assistance as indicated in the Individual Service Plan (ISP). Community Access services cannot be provided in the participants home or family home, personal care home, community living arrangement, or group home.Community Access Individual (CAI) services are provided to an individual participant, with a one-to-one staff to participant ratio. CAI services are directly linked to goals and expectations of improvement in skills. The intended outcome of CAI services is to improve the participants access to the community through increased skills, increased natural supports, and/or less paid supports. CAI services are designed to be teaching and coaching in nature. These services assist the participant in acquiring, retaining, or improving socialization and networking, independent use of community resources, and adaptive skills required for active community participation outside the participants place of residence. CAI services may include programming to reduce inappropriate and/or maladaptive behaviors. CAI services are not facility-based.Community Access Group (CAG) services are provided to groups of individuals, with a staff to individual ratio of one to two or more. The direct care staff to individual ratio for Community Access Group services cannot exceed one (1) to ten (10) and is determined based on individual need level of the participants in the group. CAG services are designed to provide oversight, assist with daily living, socialization, communication, and mobility skills building and supports in a group. CAG services may include programming to reduce inappropriate and/or maladaptive behaviors. CAG services may be provided in a facility or a community as appropriate for the skill being taught or specific activity supported.Specialized Medical Supplies (SMS) Services include various supplies that enable individuals to interact more independently with their environment and contribute to an enhanced quality of life, as well as a reduced dependence on physical support from others. SMS includes items such as food supplements, special clothing, diapers, bed wetting protective chucks, and other supplies that are specified in the approved Individual Service Plan and are not available under the other Medicaid non-waiver programs. Ancillary supplies necessary for the proper functioning of approved devices are also included in this service.Specialized Medical Equipment (SME) Services include various devices, controls or appliances, which are designed to enable individuals to interact more independently with their environment thus enhancing their quality of life and reducing their dependence on physical support from others. SME services also include assessment or training needed to assist participants with mobility, seating, bathing transferring, security or other skills such as operating a wheelchair, locks, door openers, or side layers. These services additionally consist of customizing a device to meet a participants needs.Supported Employment services provide supports that assist individuals with disabilities with planning their career goals by discovering their personal interests, gifts, and strengths. We help them find employment, which includes job development through activities such as interview preparation, filling our applications, resume building, and networking. Once employed, EC provides job coaching, training and support for the person to maintain successful employment. Or self-employment through the operation of a business, including helping identify potential business opportunities, assisting in the development of a business plan, identifying the supports that are necessary for them to operate a business, and ongoing assistance, counseling and guidance once the business has been launched.

  Expenses $2,314,564 · Revenue $2,704,449

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

• JONATHAN FANCHER

  Executive Dir.

  Total calculated

  $99,502

  From this org

  $80,510

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $18,992

  Hours/week

  40

• RICHARD KEARLEY

  President EX-OF

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• MIKE SPIVEY

  President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• TAMMIE ANDERSON

  Vice President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• LOUISE FLANDERS

  Secretary

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• FLONDELL THOMPSON

  Treasurer

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ANGELA BACON

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• MINDY DAVIS

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• DR SUSAN PADGETT-HARRISON

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• DONNA MCGOWAN

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• LONNIE PEPLAU

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• MIKE ZENCHUK

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• MIKE MCCRACKEN

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• EVAN INGRAM

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  0

• AARON MARCELLI

  Director

  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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,795,012

  Expenses

  $2,584,557

  Contributions

  $72,616

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,410,309

  Expenses

  $2,240,189

  Contributions

  $70,787

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,259,249

  Expenses

  $1,952,802

  Contributions

  $81,313

  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

  $1,859,644

  Expenses

  $1,497,013

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,204,110

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,039,352

  Expenses

  $1,204,699

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,011,819

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,506,601

  Expenses

  $1,523,072

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,242,246

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,675,709

  Expenses

  $1,655,655

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,063,860

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,620,188

  Expenses

  $1,637,986

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,022,412

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,683,145

  Expenses

  $1,628,744

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,006,035

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

• KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARTIES OF GEORGIA INC

  $14,052

  2025 · FOODS & SOCIAL SERVICES

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