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MEMPHIS MERIT ACADEMY

EIN 82-2828471 MEMPHIS, TN

Revenue 2024
$6,689,747
Expenses 2024
$6,612,069

Program services were 62.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
Street
4075 AMERICAN WAY

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

MEMPHIS MERIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL PREPARES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TH-GRADE STUDENTS IN MEMPHIS FOR SUCCESS IN HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND LIFE BY PROVIDING RIGOROUS ACADEMICS, HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTION, AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN A SUPPORTIVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT.

  • PROGRAM SERVICES CONSIST OF PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP ACADEMIC ACUMEN AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS NECESSARY FOR STUDENTS TO EXCEL IN HIGH SCHOOL, THRIVE IN COLLEGE, AND LEAD LIVES FULL OF OPPORTUNITY.

    Expenses $4,134,745 · Revenue $206,402

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • AURELIA MCBRIDE

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • TALUNJA PROPHET

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • DIMIKA CAVALIER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • JOSEPH MCKINNEY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • LASHAWN LESTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • REID LANIGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • ROBIN DIXON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • TIMORIE BELK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • LAKENNA R BOOKER

    HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $143,046
    From this org
    $143,046
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,689,747
    Expenses
    $6,612,069
    Contributions
    $6,454,719
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,640,340
    Expenses
    $5,853,082
    Contributions
    $5,344,568
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,545,144
    Expenses
    $4,395,049
    Contributions
    $4,383,251
    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
    $3,378,082
    Expenses
    $3,150,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,579,395

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,414,359
    Expenses
    $2,115,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,556,838

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,729,001
    Expenses
    $1,640,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,097,486

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $763,284
    Expenses
    $328,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,038

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.

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities 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.