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CLIFTON HOUSE INC

EIN 84-2681779 BALTIMORE, MD

Revenue 2025
$305,924
Expenses 2025
$322,531

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A90
Classification
1200
Street
2605 TALBOT ROAD

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

The Clifton House's mission is to continue the legacy of acclaimed poet Lucille Clifton and community activist Fred Clifton by providing mentorship, local and global resource access, training, and development in the creative arts to underrepresented and underserved people of all ages in the Baltimore and surrounding communities, with particular focus on Afrodiasporic, female, and gender non-conforming LGBTQA+ poets, writers, artists, and creative activists.

  • In 2025, The Clifton House continued to expand its impact as one of Baltimore's premier literary and interdisciplinary arts organizations, welcoming hundreds of visitors through a robust calendar of public programs, workshops, screenings, lectures, performances, and community gatherings. Throughout the year, the organization presented dozens of events that celebrated the enduring legacy of Lucille and Fred Clifton while creating meaningful opportunities for artists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, and audiences to engage in dialogue, creative practice, and cultural exchange. Signature initiativesincluding the First Films screening series, poetry workshops, artist conversations, BEAMS youth programming, literary readings, and multidisciplinary performancesregularly attracted audiences from across Baltimore and beyond, fostering intergenerational participation and expanding access to high-quality arts experiences.

    Expenses $282,288

  • A defining accomplishment of the year was All of My Bones Remember, a multi-day celebration in partnership with The LIbrary and Jupiter Magazine; honoring the life and work of Lucille Clifton that brought together nearly two hundred attendees for lectures, panel discussions, poetry readings, community conversations, and public gatherings. Through strategic partnerships with literary, educational, and cultural organizations, The Clifton House broadened its reach while strengthening its role as a vibrant center for artistic excellence, creative learning, and civic engagement. Collectively, the organization's 2025 programming served a broad and diverse community of participants, deepened connections among artists and audiences, elevated emerging and established voices, and further advanced The Clifton House's mission to preserve literary heritage while nurturing the next generation of creative practitioners.

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.

  • Sidney Clifton

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vell Lyles

    advisor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ali Michael Cannon

    advisor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gillan Clifton

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Darlene Taylor

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Tuajuanda Jordan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Philis Rambsy

    advisor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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
    $305,924
    Expenses
    $322,531
    Contributions
    $305,924
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $657,466
    Expenses
    $266,037
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $367,466
    Expenses
    $266,037
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,284
    Expenses
    $104,691
    Contributions
    $22,284
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $51,098
    Expenses
    $45,098
    Contributions
    $51,098
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2022, reinstated 15 May 2022.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.