- Revenue 2025
- $478,707
- Expenses 2025
- $514,286
Program services were 70.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- N31
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 217
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 · 2025
Mission
THE MISSION OF THE CLARKSTON COMMUNITY CENTER IS TO CONNECT ATLANTA'S COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES THROUGH EDUCATION, RECREATION, AND THE ARTS.
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SENIOR REFUGEE PROGRAM (SRP): Provides ESL, exercise, fellowship, and recreational opportunities to some of our most vulnerable residents. Older people who come as refugees face the greatest challenges transitioning to a new culture, have difficulty learning English, and are often isolated. Seniors from 57 refugee countries attend morning classes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, spending the morning learning English, talking with volunteers, receiving valuable health education, and interacting with each other. Seniors are also offered art classes and exercise classes such as Tai Chi and stretching.Adult Education, Arts, Health, and Community Services:adult English language programs, including the Hello English program serving refugee women; the Care & Connection program, in partnership with Georgia State University's School of Public Health, which reduces social isolation and improves mental well-being through culturally relevant group activities such as crochet, henna art, and gardening; arts and culture programming, including classes, exhibitions, cultural celebrations, and a community podcast; technology access, providing computer access, digital literacy training, and internet access in partnership with the DeKalb County Public Library System; parent advocate training; and community health and wellness workshops and resource fairs.
Expenses $201,100 · Revenue $3,400
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Clarkston Youth Development Program:Assists and educates students, including recently arrived refugees and children from low-income families in the area, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The CCC Quiet Zones 2.0 afterschool program, sponsored by DeKalb County Youth Services, provides tutoring, homework help, STEM engagement, workforce development, and positive image exercises. The Summer STEAM Plus Camp teaches science, technology, engineering, art, writing, and math in a seven-week program engaging over 50 students ages 5 to 18, most from families at the poverty level and many recent refugees. Leaders of Tomorrow trains refugee high school students in cohorts of 10 to 20 to develop leadership skills, college and work readiness, and civic responsibility. The program also includes the Book Buddies reading and learning-loss tutoring program funded by United Way, the Youth Cycle program, and the Global Youth Ambassadors program.
Expenses $84,600
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Community Events and Gathering-Place Operations:The Center's historic facility serves as the primary gathering place for the Clarkston community, one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the United States. The Center makes its auditorium, meeting rooms, kitchen, and grounds available for community events, cultural celebrations, weddings, performances, television and media production, and gatherings hosted by residents, community groups, and partner organizations. In 2025 the Center hosted events serving 60,000 community members, directly furthering its mission to connect Atlanta's communities and cultures through education, recreation, and the arts. Facility-use fees charged for these events constitute program service revenue that sustains the Center's charitable programs.
Expenses $76,700 · Revenue $249,381
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Other Program Services Food Services Program:Over half of the children residing in the Clarkston area live in poverty. The Center's food pantry, opened in September 2011, provides low-income families with food, clothes, and hygiene products throughout the week as an emergency food pantry, as well as on the first Saturday of every month.
Expenses $1,073
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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Luay SamiLUAY SAMI
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $70,700
- From this org
- $70,700
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
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Dr Henry Chip CareyDR HENRY CHIP CAREY
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lesley DixonLESLEY DIXON
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Shirley ZambranoSHIRLEY ZAMBRANO
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Ashli Owen-SmithDR ASHLI OWEN-SMITH
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alma NietoALMA NIETO
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Farah DharamshiFARAH DHARAMSHI
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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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2025
- Revenue
- $478,707
- Expenses
- $514,286
- Contributions
- $214,770
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $536,430
- Expenses
- $581,426
- Contributions
- $327,918
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $396,225
- Expenses
- $492,906
- Contributions
- $203,205
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $558,449
- Expenses
- $401,471
- Contributions
- $292,409
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $484,581
- Expenses
- $350,347
- Assets (EOY)
- $290,722
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $389,045
- Expenses
- $326,072
- Assets (EOY)
- $190,936
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $353,880
- Expenses
- $324,553
- Assets (EOY)
- $81,111
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $382,396
- Expenses
- $343,532
- Assets (EOY)
- $63,554
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $341,422
- Expenses
- $357,762
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,402
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $363,330
- Expenses
- $400,907
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,570
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $481,222
- Expenses
- $568,112
- Assets (EOY)
- $65,331
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $577,471
- Expenses
- $491,861
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,528
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $415,145
- Expenses
- $436,173
- Assets (EOY)
- $57,205
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $347,035
- Assets (EOY)
- $76,419
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
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$40,000
2023 CHARITABLE SUPPORT
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 OJJDP-MENTORING PROG
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2023 SEE PART IV
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2024 MEDICAL RELIEF
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2023 GILEAD GRANT
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2022 SEE PART IV
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.