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SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION

EIN 81-2423050 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2025
$4,593,896
Expenses 2025
$4,019,071

Program services were 63.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A12
Classification
1000
Street
1302 WAUGH DR

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.

  • Kevin Gee

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • June Rodil

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Petter Pettersen

    Immediate Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Benjamin Fink

    Chairman, Finance Committe

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Shepherd

    Founding Dir, Honorary Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leighann Bakunas

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vanessa Ames

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chree Boydstun

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ikimi Dubose

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Franklin

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaitlyn Goalen

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Grueneberg

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cherif Mbodji

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Smith

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Toni Tipton-Martin

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsey Brown

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $172,131
    From this org
    $159,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,873
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,258
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,174
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,699
    Filer's total
    $172,131

  • Cris Tang

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $153,672
    From this org
    $145,973
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,699
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,973
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,699
    Filer's total
    $153,672

  • Caroline Nabors Rosen

    Director of Development

    Total calculated
    $140,302
    From this org
    $131,969
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,333
    Hours/week
    40

  • Catarina Bill

    Chief Mission Officer

    Total calculated
    $122,397
    From this org
    $115,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,814
    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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,593,896
    Expenses
    $4,019,071
    Contributions
    $4,135,907
    Grants paid
    $1,796,850
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,321,072
    Expenses
    $4,889,010
    Contributions
    $3,964,683
    Grants paid
    $3,164,258
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,537,848
    Expenses
    $2,671,210
    Contributions
    $2,068,987
    Grants paid
    $1,145,806
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,332,005
    Expenses
    $2,425,858
    Contributions
    $2,490,251
    Grants paid
    $961,241

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.