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Deep Center

Website:

www.deepcenter.org/
Location:

Savannah, GA
Tax ID:

26-1706426
Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Budget (2020):

Revenue: $1,249,096
Expenses: $1,029,279
Assets: $1,182,775
Formation:

2008
Executive Director:

Louise Tremblay

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Deep Center is a left-of-center activist incubation organization that uses programs and workshops to train young individuals in Savannah, Georgia, to support race-centric social policies and policies that increase dependence on welfare spending.

Introduction

The Deep Center was founded in 2008 as a project intended to address literacy deficiencies in Savannah, Georgia through creative writing workshops. 1 Today, the organization uses workshops to incubate young activists to support race and gender-centric social policies, 2 and utilizes its activist incubation apparatus to advocate and lobby for the positions Deep Center teaches in its workshops. 3

Finances

In 2020 Deep Center received $1,231,953 in contributions, 4 $1,249,096 in total revenue, 5 incurred $1,029,279 in expenses, 6 and possessed $718,641 in net assets. 7

In 2020 Deep Center received a $428,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Education and a three-year $600,00 grant from the left-of-center William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 8 In addition, many Deep Center publications thank the Vera Institute of Justice for providing funding and support for the publication. 9

Of the contributions received, $117,371 was used to produce and provide lessons, 10 referred to as workshops, that advocated for and taught the need for race and gender-focused policies to students in 61 public high schools. 11 An additional $157,694 was used to provide similar incubation programs for youth in general. 12

National Writing Project

One of the cornerstone projects of Deep Center is its writing project. 13 The writing project claims that it is a venue where young individuals can learn to express the frustrations and challenges they experience through writing; 14 however, the program is designed to nudge young individuals to trace adversity they experience in life to issues of race and gender. 15

The National Writing Project is a program of the Deep Center designed to train individuals who facilitate writing project workshops with young individuals for Deep Center to become more effective at training young activists, 16 particularly individuals from lower-income and middle-class backgrounds, 17 to attribute adversities they experience to issues of race and gender. 18

Policy Advocacy

Deep Center states that its activist incubation efforts support its “policy advocacy wing” 19 and that the stated objective of the various policy efforts that the organization pursues is to oppose “racist systems and narratives” 20 that are allegedly the main barriers to alleviating poverty and “cycles of harm.” 21

Deep Center advocates positions including soft-on-crime policies that limit the ability of judges to require pre-trial bail for individuals arrested for committing crimes 22 and “restorative justice,” 23 an umbrella term used by the Deep Center that seeks a host of welfare spending and decriminalization policies along racial lines, 24 including creating task forces that suggest how government spending should be distributed, 25 more government-subsidized and rent-free housing projects, and additional oversight boards that monitor police activity. 26

Leadership

Louise Tremblay is the interim-executive director of Deep Center. Prior to joining Deep Center Tremblay was the director of youth programming for The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina. 27

References

  1. “Our History” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/about/our-mission/
  2.  “Our Policy Initiative” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/policy-initiative/
  3. “Our Policy Initiative” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/policy-initiative/
  4. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 8. 2020.
  5. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 12. 2020.
  6. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 18. 2020.
  7. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 22. 2020.
  8. “Deep Center Annual Report 2021-2022” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2021-2022-School-Year-Annual-Report.pdf
  9. “The Problem is the Problem” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Problem-Is-The-Problem-050421.pdf
  10. [1] Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part III, line 4a. 2020.
  11. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 4a. 2020.
  12. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Deep Center. Part I, line 4b. 2020.
  13. “Our Method” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/our-method/
  14. “Our Method” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/our-method/
  15. “Our Method” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/our-method/
  16. “The Writing Project” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/teacher-learning/
  17. “The Writing Project” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/teacher-learning/
  18. “The Writing Project” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/teacher-learning/
  19. “Our Policy Initiative” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/policy-initiative/
  20. “Our Policy Initiative” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/policy-initiative/
  21. “Our Policy Initiative” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/programs/policy-initiative/
  22. Bail Reform in Chatham County” Deep Center. June 1, 2022. Accessed December 22, 2022. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/June-Chatham-Bail-Presentation.pdf
  23. “Building a Restorative Community” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-Deep-Policy-Brief-FINAL_digital-1.pdf
  24. “Building a Restorative Community” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-Deep-Policy-Brief-FINAL_digital-1.pdf
  25. “Building a Restorative Community” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-Deep-Policy-Brief-FINAL_digital-1.pdf
  26. “Building a Restorative Community” Deep Center. https://www.deepcenter.org/deepcenter/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-Deep-Policy-Brief-FINAL_digital-1.pdf
  27. “Louise Tremblay” Deep Center https://www.deepcenter.org/2020/07/15/louise-tremblay-interim-director/
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Nonprofit Information

  • Accounting Period: December - November
  • Tax Exemption Received: September 1, 2008

    • Available Filings

    Period Form Type Total revenue Total functional expenses Total assets (EOY) Total liabilities (EOY) Unrelated business income? Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. of current officers, directors, etc. Form 990
    2020 Dec Form 990 $1,249,096 $1,029,279 $1,182,775 $464,134 N $1,231,953 $16,015 $1,095 $80,000
    2019 Dec Form 990 $944,773 $703,947 $763,442 $264,618 N $906,840 $35,800 $2,127 $80,000 PDF
    2018 Dec Form 990 $524,638 $518,717 $402,992 $144,994 N $495,141 $29,400 $67 $52,942 PDF
    2017 Dec Form 990 $507,550 $386,638 $397,777 $145,700 N $490,547 $17,000 $3 $50,000 PDF
    2016 Dec Form 990 $289,794 $262,642 $251,268 $120,103 N $277,294 $12,500 $0 $45,446
    2015 Dec Form 990 $240,725 $159,745 $105,713 $1,700 N $240,602 $0 $0 $40,000 PDF
    2014 Dec Form 990EZ $144,711 $124,867 $23,033 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2013 Dec Form 990EZ $80,851 $0 $1 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2012 Dec Form 990EZ $87,967 $91,200 $16,208 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2011 Dec Form 990EZ $77,565 $71,473 $19,441 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF

    Deep Center


    Savannah, GA