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COMMUNITY SUCCESS INITIATIVE INC

EIN 16-1702165 RALEIGH, NC

Revenue 2025
$563,185
Expenses 2025
$537,046

Program services were 39.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 61114

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

To create communities where people discover their potential, set worthy goals for their lives, and take action in a positive way. CSI seeks to fill a need to see personal growth and leadership principles become a recognized strategy for achieving success in the lives of everyday people, with an emphasis on men and women who are transitioning from prison and jail back into the community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

1. HELPING FORMERLY INCARCERATED PERSONS GET BACK ON THEIR FEET. 2. REDUCING CRIME IN THE COMMUNITY.

  • Code: 500.11 - ADULT REENTRY PROGRAM: We work with men and women in prison, former prisoners, people in transition, and their families through our "Resource Center Without Walls". We provide small group trainings and individual mentoring in general life skills, leadership, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and areas related to transitioning back into family and community life. We also convene gatherings that provide the opportunity for people with life experience with the criminal justice and prison systems to network with each other, exchange knowledge and resources, and solve problems. These gatherings usually take the shape of family sessions to strengthen family relationships as well as support and empowerment groups for prisoners and former prisoners. We also collaboratively convene roundtables for people to learn more about the criminal justice and prison prison systems from people with real life experiences, and organize advocacy efforts around related issues.

    Expenses $209,527 · Revenue $46,184

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Dennis W Gaddy

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $126,005
    From this org
    $126,005
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LEMUEL H THORNTON

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SHERWOOD JACKSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Brenda Hall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $563,185
    Expenses
    $537,046
    Contributions
    $520,252
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $569,415
    Expenses
    $566,336
    Contributions
    $539,433
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,333,976
    Expenses
    $1,195,420
    Contributions
    $1,308,799
    Grants paid
    $27,035

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
    $916,178
    Expenses
    $934,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $772,692

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $853,106
    Expenses
    $546,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $707,782

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2007

Tax period
1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
Principal officer
Lemuel H Thornton Sr
Mailing address
PO Box 61114Raleigh NC 27661
Website
www.communitysuccess.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

  • Justice Served

    $25,000

    2022 Support community initiatives serving the justice involved individual to get driver licenses, deal with issues around expungement and many other urgent needs in this population. Educating the community forms an important part of the initiative supported by this grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.