- Revenue 2024
- $8,230,223
- Expenses 2024
- $8,320,253
Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 1650 OAKBROOK DR STE 445
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
CREATIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES (CCS) IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN TEENS AND ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, AND THEIR FAMILIES, BY PROVIDING DIRECT SERVICES AND COMMUNITY-BASED SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, AND ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, AND THEIR FAMILIES, BY PROVIDING DIRECT SERVICES AND COMMUNITY-BASED SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
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CREATIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. (THE ORGANIZATION) WAS CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES TO YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE AND/OR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE PLACEMENTS (TFC) FOR YOUTH, INCLUDING INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT, BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMS, LIFE SKILLS TRAINING AND MENTORING SERVICES (SOAR). THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES HOST HOME PLACEMENTS FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (DD), INCLUDING CASE MANAGEMENT, SOCIAL OUTINGS, LIFE SKILLS TRAINING AND ONGOING SUPPORT TO MEET MEDICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES SUPPORT TO EXPECTANT AND PARENTING YOUTH (TPC) WITH LIFE COACH SERVICES INCLUDING, PARENTING ASSESSMENTS, DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENINGS, individualized parenting & life skills education, vocational training and advocacy. The Organization also provides respite services through adventure youth program (AYP). The Organization's principal means of support is from contracts with governmental agencies in the State of GEORGIA and grants. The Organization conducts the following programs: Social services - The Organization contributes services to families, children and teens in the foster care system which can include adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. Community based services - The Organization contributes services to families and children in home care and kinship care.
Expenses $6,929,391 · Grants $4,437,585 · Revenue $3,940,482
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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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Sally Buchanan
CEO
- Total calculated
- $199,003
- From this org
- $198,313
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $690
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $159,319
- Bonus
- $31,331
- Other
- $7,663
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $705
- Filer's total
- $199,018
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Linda Coil
CFO
- Total calculated
- $112,404
- From this org
- $95,916
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,488
- Hours/week
- 40
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Gayle Ely
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Rick Walters
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cassandra Williams
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
April Ogden
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Chris Dunn
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ashley Edwards Altman
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mary Showell
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ashley Wright
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Josh King
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zach VanZile
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Margot Weaver
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jim Kerlin
Board Member Thru 3/20/2025
- 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. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $8,230,223
- Expenses
- $8,320,253
- Contributions
- $4,287,862
- Grants paid
- $4,437,585
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2023
- Revenue
- $7,916,161
- Expenses
- $8,016,456
- Contributions
- $3,635,940
- Grants paid
- $4,219,640
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2022
- Revenue
- $7,380,767
- Expenses
- $7,430,045
- Contributions
- $3,147,787
- Grants paid
- $3,933,530
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
- $6,893,740
- Expenses
- $6,826,530
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,958,708
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,973,401
- Expenses
- $6,182,320
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,921,187
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,516,468
- Expenses
- $6,329,795
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,445,424
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,358,679
- Expenses
- $6,274,252
- Assets (EOY)
- $798,886
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,195,551
- Expenses
- $6,216,687
- Assets (EOY)
- $833,644
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,195,551
- Expenses
- $6,216,687
- Assets (EOY)
- $833,644
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,077,277
- Expenses
- $6,162,400
- Assets (EOY)
- $716,728
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,021,203
- Expenses
- $6,072,994
- Assets (EOY)
- $757,878
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,951,328
- Expenses
- $5,846,661
- Assets (EOY)
- $753,676
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,694,654
- Expenses
- $5,691,345
- Assets (EOY)
- $637,266
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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2024 HUMAN SERVICES
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$50,000
2023 THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION/MENTOR PROGRAM
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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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.