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CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY INC

EIN 58-1825259 ATLANTA, GA

Revenue 2023
$180,040,760
Expenses 2023
$179,211,964

Program services were 74.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
2000
Street
223 JAMES P BRAWLEY DR SW

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 · 2023

Mission

CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IS A RESEARCH INSTITUTION WITH ACTIVITY CHARACTERIZED BY A FOCUS ON THE INTELLECTUAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF EACH STUDENT. ITS PURPOSE IS TO PREPARE A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS WHO EXCEL IN THEIR CHOSEN ENDEAVORS AND BECOME RESPONSIBLE, PRODUCTIVE, AND INNOVATIVE CITIZEN LEADERS, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IS A DOCTORAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY THAT OFFERS UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS NON-DEGREE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS.

  • INSTRUCTION: CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY (CAU), FORMED IN 1988 AS A RESULT OF THE CONSOLIDATION OF TWO INDEPENDENT HISTORICALLY BLACK INSTITUTIONS - ATLANTA UNIVERSITY (1865) AND CLARK COLLEGE (1869), IS A UNITED METHODIST CHURCH RELATED, PRIVATE, COEDUCATIONAL, RESIDENTIAL, AND COMPREHENSIVE URBAN INSTITUTION. THE UNIVERSITY AWARDS BACHELORS, MASTERS, SPECIALIST AND DOCTORAL DEGREES.

    Expenses $75,307,336 · Grants $36,689,073 · Revenue $113,863,309

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: ADDITIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES EXPENDITURES AT THE UNIVERSITY INCLUDE RESEARCH, ACADEMIC SUPPORT, AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

    Expenses $21,670,606

  • AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES: AS A RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTION, CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY PROVIDED ON-CAMPUS HOUSING FOR APPROXIMATELY 1,870 OF ITS 4,135 STUDENTS. THE UNIVERSITY ALSO PROVIDES DINING SERVICES TO STUDENTS IN THE RESIDENTIAL HALLS, FACULTY, STAFF AND OTHER EXTERNAL PARTIES

    Expenses $20,307,415 · Grants $528,703 · Revenue $20,732,447

  • STUDENT SERVICES: LEAVERAGING ITS DISTINCTIVE HISTORY, CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IS AN URBAN RESEARCH UNIVERSITY THAT TRANSFORMS THE LIVES OF STUDENTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES BY PREPARING CITIZEN LEADERS TO BE PROBLEM-SOLVERS, THROUGH INNOVATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS, SUPPORTIVE INTERACTIONS WITH FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS, EXEMPLARY SCHOLARSHIP, AND PURPOSEFUL SERVICE.

    Expenses $16,771,267

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • GEORGE FRENCH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $606,476
    From this org
    $561,135
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,341
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $561,135
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $28,057
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,284
    Filer's total
    $606,476

  • GREGORY MORRISON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LEONARD WALKER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • STEPHANIE RUSSELL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • AL REID

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ALVIN TROTTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BOBBIE KENNEDY SANFORD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BRENDA WALKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CAROLYN MCCLAIN YOUNG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DERRICK WILLIAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ERMINA HILL

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ERNEST GREEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ERROL TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • INGRID SAUNDERS JONES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ISAAC SNYPE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JAMES COLON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JEFFERY GILBERT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JOHN BRYANT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MICHAEL MELTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • R WILLIAM IDE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • REV MICHAEL MCQUEEN

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RICHARD HOLMES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SALVADOR DIAZ-VERSON JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SHAUNTE NORRIS

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • THARON JOHNSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

The first 25 listed. 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. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $180,040,760
    Expenses
    $179,211,964
    Contributions
    $36,471,145
    Grants paid
    $37,217,776
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $177,759,227
    Expenses
    $166,950,038
    Contributions
    $46,159,009
    Grants paid
    $36,077,548

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
    $214,263,392
    Expenses
    $173,495,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,613,347

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $177,005,982
    Expenses
    $138,181,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,184,848

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $148,994,967
    Expenses
    $137,827,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,178,622

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $145,580,362
    Expenses
    $135,248,916
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,133,443

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $147,611,574
    Expenses
    $127,560,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,906,205

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,827,310
    Expenses
    $120,608,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,902,976

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $120,045,439
    Expenses
    $114,641,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,485,140

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $116,566,293
    Expenses
    $108,475,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,111,637

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $114,618,988
    Expenses
    $108,507,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,850,110

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $107,808,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,837,056

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.