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CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC

EIN 61-1379952 WHITESBURG, KY

Revenue 2024
$3,441,661
Expenses 2024
$2,843,498

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
46 E MAIN ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES SEEKS TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FOR COMMUNITIES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH THE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE USE OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS. BY PRESENTING ACCURATE AND COMPELLING PORTRAITS OF RURAL LIVES AND CULTURES, WE HOPE TO DEEPEN PUBLIC DEBATE AND CREATE A NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH POSITIVE CHANGE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES CAN OCCUR.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FOR COMMUNITIES THROUGH CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE USE OF MEDIA.

  • PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDE HELPING COMMUNITIES AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INCORPORATE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS INTO THEIR WORK IN SUPPORT OF STRATEGIC GOALS. IN ADDITION, IT INCLUDES THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS THAT EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT EXIST IN CONTEMPORARY RURAL COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $2,392,491 · Revenue $26,395

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.

  • Erickson Blakney

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shirley Sneve

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Wisdom

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dwight Langhum

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ligia Cravo

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ali Webb

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sara Moynihan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Gong

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam Giorgi

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $93,392
    From this org
    $89,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,592
    Hours/week
    40
  • Charles Marty Newell

    COO

    Total calculated
    $107,869
    From this org
    $103,720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,149
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • Tim Marema

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $107,120
    From this org
    $103,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,120
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dee Davis

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $116,979
    From this org
    $112,480
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,499
    Hours/week
    40
  • Whitney Kimball Coe

    VP NATIONAL PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $47,590
    From this org
    $45,760
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,830
    Hours/week
    30

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,441,661
    Expenses
    $2,843,498
    Contributions
    $3,106,987
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,259,984
    Expenses
    $2,772,236
    Contributions
    $1,931,956
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,040,955
    Expenses
    $2,218,519
    Contributions
    $5,899,524
    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
    $3,019,621
    Expenses
    $1,494,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,700,773
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,676,974
    Expenses
    $1,454,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,168,877
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,814,849
    Expenses
    $1,079,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,938,090
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $970,745
    Expenses
    $805,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $894,481
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $748,934
    Expenses
    $739,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $351,607
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $729,390
    Expenses
    $727,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,334
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $934,539
    Expenses
    $1,038,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,131
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $832,602
    Expenses
    $900,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,704
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,070,849
    Expenses
    $908,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,056
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $998,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,210

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.