- Revenue 2024
- $372,211
- Expenses 2024
- $388,129
Program services were 4.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A23
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 647 CHARLBURY 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
Mission
The mission of Marafiki Center is to create opportunities for cross-cultural connection. We build a bridge of mutual understanding through education, events, and advocating for improved representation of the African and Swahili-speaking communities in Lexington, Kentucky.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The mission of Marafiki Center is to create opportunities for crosscultural connection We build a bridge of mutual understanding through education events and advocating for improved representation of the African and Swahilispeaking communities in Lexington Kentucky
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Youth clubs and parenting engagement through workshops. Back to school resources and community events.
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.
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SEDRICK MURHULA
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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GEELA SPIRA
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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KARISSA PORTER
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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PABLO G EMEDI
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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ALBERT LUKONGA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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LYNDA BROWN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $372,211
- Expenses
- $388,129
- Contributions
- $372,211
- Grants paid
- $15,834
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023
- Tax period
- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Principal officer
- Sedrick Murhula
- Mailing address
- 857 Sparta Court Suite ALexington KY 40504
- Website
- https://www.marafikicenter.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
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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
$313,129
2024 REFUGEE SCHOOL IMPACT
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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
$216,144
2023 REFUGEE SCHOOL IMPACT
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2023 TO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
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2024 GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
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.