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CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION INC

EIN 41-2045912 MEMPHIS, TN

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Revenue 2024
$168,115
Expenses 2024
$185,111

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83
Classification
1000
Street
699 OAKLEAF OFFICE LN STE 107

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

TO FAITHFULLY AND COMPETENTLY DEFEND RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE.

  • LEGAL REPRESENTATION - CRE ADDRESSED THE CONTINUING THREATS TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BY HELPING THOSE IN NEED WITH FREE AND COMPETENT LEGAL AID IN FOUR DISTINCT WAYS: 1)WE ADVISED AND PROVIDED LEGAL COUNSEL FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES WHO CONTACTED US; 2) WE ADVOCATED ON BEHALF OF CLIENTS VIA LETTERS AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION; 3) WE PURSUED AND DEFENDED LEGAL CLAIMS IN COURT, PARTICIPATING IN LITIGATED CASES; AND 4) WE OBTAINED LEGAL PRECEDENT IN MATTERS TO MAINTAIN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR ALL.

    Expenses $185,111 · Revenue $167,115

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.

  • Nathan Kellum

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Pat McClerkin

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Preston Klinke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Adrian Yelverton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bryan Hawkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • William Kay

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    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, 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
    $168,115
    Expenses
    $185,111
    Contributions
    $1,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $465,398
    Expenses
    $475,232
    Contributions
    $253,309
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $375,419
    Expenses
    $456,684
    Contributions
    $216,366
    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
    $356,942
    Expenses
    $268,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,095

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,825
    Expenses
    $248,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,413

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $460,396
    Expenses
    $471,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,523

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $414,825
    Expenses
    $448,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,598

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $479,817
    Expenses
    $456,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,717

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $272,746
    Expenses
    $252,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,883

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $495,620
    Expenses
    $491,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,460

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $459,088
    Expenses
    $481,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,890

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $603,708
    Expenses
    $596,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,477

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,845
    Expenses
    $64,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,363

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period
1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012
Principal officer
Nathan W Kellum
Mailing address
699 OAKLEAF OFFICE LN NO 107MEMPHIS TN 38117

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.