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SOWEGA RISING

EIN 83-2761941 ALBANY, GA

Revenue 2024
$1,153,403
Expenses 2024
$1,114,993

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S01
Classification
1200
Street
521 W 3RD 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 · 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.

  • SHERRELL BYRD

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • AMNA FAROOQI

    Chair Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MICHAEL HARPER

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CLINTON BANKS VICKS

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ALANA SIMMONS

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MAGGIE BOXEY

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DR KIZZIE DONALDSON-RICHARD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • COREY MORGAN

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Cierra Franklin

    Board Member

    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 — 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
    $1,153,403
    Expenses
    $1,114,993
    Contributions
    $284,283
    Grants paid
    $24,192
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $626,930
    Expenses
    $561,086
    Contributions
    $626,030
    Grants paid
    $5,675
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $765,436
    Expenses
    $280,931
    Contributions
    $763,690
    Grants paid
    $11,580

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

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

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.