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STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY

EIN 27-2163445 NASHVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024
$16,130,652
Expenses 2024
$17,051,153

Program services were 55.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
1200
Street
1162 FOSTER AVE

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 PROVIDE A COLLEGE PREPARATORY EDUCATION WITH AN INTEGRATED FOCUS ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS, TO FIFTH THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS IN SOUTH NASHVILLE.

  • STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY PROVIDES A COLLEGE PREPARATORY EDUCATION WITH AN INTEGRATED FOCUS ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM). FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR, STEM SERVED OVER 1,000 STUDENTS WITHIN OUR TWO SCHOOLS, STEM PREP MIDDLE (5-8) AND STEM PREP HIGH (9-12) WITH THE GOAL OF INCREASING THE NUMBER OF UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS WHO (1) SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATE FOR THE MOST COMPETITIVE UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY, AND (2) BECOME LEADERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY. STEM CONTINUES TO OUTPERFORM PEER SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE STATE ACROSS ALL SUBJECT AREAS. SINCE OPENING ITS DOORS IN JULY 2011, STEM HAS BEEN HONORED WITH NUMEROUS AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE.IN MAY 2025, STEM GRADUATED ITS SEVENTH HIGH SCHOOL CLASS, COMPRISED PREDOMINANTLY OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN CONTINUOUSLY ENROLLED AT STEM SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE GRADUATING CLASS EARNED $8 MILLION IN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OVER 900 PERCENT OF GRADUATES WERE ACCEPTED ONTO POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS. FURTHER, THROUGH STEM'S DUAL CREDIT PARTNERSHIP, THE GRADUATING CLASS EARNED OVER 200 COLLEGE CREDITS. STUDENTS ENROLLED IN STEM'S HEALTH SCIENCES PATHWAY COMPLETED REQUISITE COURSEWORK AND PRACTICE, PER THE TENNESSEE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, FOR THE CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT (CMA) LICENSE.

    Expenses $9,382,427 · Revenue $368,208

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.

  • DR MARILYN ODOM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MOHAMMED-SHUKRI HASSAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR KRISTIN MCGRANER

    FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAREES CHOPPIN

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARA RIVERA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNE DAVIS

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIM THOMASON

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEMETRIUS GREER

    CEO & COO

    Total calculated
    $235,083
    From this org
    $235,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $235,083
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $235,083

  • CHARLIE WILLIAMS

    DIR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $183,763
    From this org
    $183,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,763
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $183,763

  • SONYA CRUES

    HCE

    Total calculated
    $142,115
    From this org
    $142,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DESHANTA GOODEN

    HCE

    Total calculated
    $127,646
    From this org
    $127,646
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • HAROLD GRIFFIN

    HCE

    Total calculated
    $114,992
    From this org
    $114,992
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $16,130,652
    Expenses
    $17,051,153
    Contributions
    $15,762,444
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,682,192
    Expenses
    $17,981,624
    Contributions
    $19,194,997
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,682,192
    Expenses
    $17,981,624
    Contributions
    $19,194,997
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $18,101,643
    Expenses
    $17,155,028
    Contributions
    $17,938,567
    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
    $16,250,518
    Expenses
    $14,533,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,886,725

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,997,797
    Expenses
    $11,749,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,161,717

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,742,212
    Expenses
    $11,910,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,889,736

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,658,809
    Expenses
    $11,621,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,799,116

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,313,635
    Expenses
    $9,616,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,950,458

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,712,866
    Expenses
    $8,361,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,854,269

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,252,090
    Expenses
    $5,491,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,375,374

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,658,179
    Expenses
    $4,136,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,526,784

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,052,232
    Expenses
    $3,125,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,526,802

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,043,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,681

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

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.