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GRADUS PROJECT

EIN 84-3342777 MEMPHIS, TN

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Revenue 2025
$200,753
Expenses 2025
$200,753

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
J20
Classification
1200
Street
3127 STONEBROOK CIR

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

Gradus means another step in Latin and the mission of the Gradus Project is to support underestimated populations to take another step toward economic mobility.

  • Implement Project E.A.T. - a program that provides paid transitional employment, wrap around services and industry training to domestic violence survivors and other underestimated populations. The organization served 20 teens in a summer camp version of Project E.A.T. The organization served 21 adults in two cohorts of the 3 month program. The participants have a 75% employment placement rate making wages averaging between $18 and $22 per hour.

    Expenses $200,753 · Grants $200,753

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.

  • Dr Penny Mickey

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $105,733
    From this org
    $105,733
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Dr Natasha Smith

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kesha Lusain

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lynn Ogle

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kenneth Mickey

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $70,582
    From this org
    $70,582
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
  • Kamekio Lewis

    Success Coach

    Total calculated
    $9,800
    From this org
    $9,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
  • Amber Covington

    WBL Learning Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $14,310
    From this org
    $14,310
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
  • Jenae Baker

    Success Coach

    Total calculated
    $6,840
    From this org
    $6,840
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
  • Tracy Jernigan

    WBL Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $4,804
    From this org
    $4,804
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0

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
    $200,753
    Expenses
    $200,753
    Contributions
    $200,753
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $222,558
    Expenses
    $92,183
    Contributions
    $222,558
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $64,469
    Expenses
    $64,469
    Contributions
    $64,469
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,947
    Expenses
    $8,347
    Contributions
    $11,947
    Grants paid
    $8,347

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
    $27,517
    Expenses
    $30,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $25

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Penny Smith-Mickey
Mailing address
4020 Millbranch RdMemphis TN 38116
Website
http://grad-us.org

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.