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← SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL.

Totals

Total revenue
$17,903,544
Total expenses
$17,080,920
Contributions and grants received
$2,113,069
Grants paid
$2,086,903
Program service revenue
$11,964,716
Investment income
$2,803,532
Other revenue
$1,022,227
Total assets, end of year
$74,436,645
Total liabilities, end of year
$10,116,143
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$64,320,502
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$12,337,126
Management and general expenses
$4,203,216
Fundraising expenses
$540,578
Program service expenses (Part III)
$12,337,126

Program services were 72.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $71,832

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $133,700

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,907,537

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $176,248

  • 2a · Program service revenue: TUITION AND FEES

    total $11,964,716 · related or exempt $11,964,716

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $804,739 · excluded $804,739

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $9,881,573

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $7,882,780

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $1,998,793

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $1,998,793 · excluded $1,998,793

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $22,781

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $71,832

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $36,091

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$13,310 · excluded -$13,310

  • 11a · Other revenue: CAMP GRIFFIN

    total $470,785 · related or exempt $470,785

  • 11b · Other revenue: EXTENDED DAY

    total $428,078 · related or exempt $428,078

  • 11c · Other revenue: PARENTS CLUB

    total $20,076 · related or exempt $20,076

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $116,598 · related or exempt $116,598

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,035,537

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $2,086,903 · program services $2,086,903

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $1,012,560 · program services $696,791 · management and general $307,751 · fundraising $8,018

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $6,437,644 · program services $4,430,049 · management and general $1,956,613 · fundraising $50,982

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $283,940 · program services $195,919 · management and general $85,182 · fundraising $2,839

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,715,310 · program services $1,178,859 · management and general $524,583 · fundraising $11,868

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $540,661 · program services $373,056 · management and general $162,198 · fundraising $5,407

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $22,143 · program services $15,722 · management and general $6,200 · fundraising $221

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $19,600 · program services $13,916 · management and general $5,488 · fundraising $196

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $144,485 · management and general $144,485

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $177,357 · management and general $177,357

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $9,767 · program services $6,722 · management and general $2,968 · fundraising $77

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $201,037 · program services $138,343 · management and general $61,102 · fundraising $1,592

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $640,934 · program services $441,057 · management and general $194,801 · fundraising $5,076

  • 17 · Travel

    total $5,768 · program services $5,768

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $844,621 · program services $581,224 · management and general $256,708 · fundraising $6,689

  • 24a · Other expenses: EDUCATION EXPENSES

    total $2,016,658 · program services $1,776,708 · management and general $233,966 · fundraising $5,984

  • 24b · Other expenses: OTHER EXPENSES

    total $455,482 · program services $31,794 · management and general $14,043 · fundraising $409,645

  • 24c · Other expenses: ATHLETICS

    total $286,077 · program services $286,077

  • 24d · Other expenses: ADMINISTRATION

    total $64,168 · program services $44,157 · management and general $19,503 · fundraising $508

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $115,805 · program services $34,061 · management and general $50,268 · fundraising $31,476

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $7,021,473 · end of year $4,663,322

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,504,263 · end of year $1,514,791

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $5,607,100 · end of year $5,823,934

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $321,015 · end of year $456,449

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $35,167,454

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $14,933,254

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $17,498,256 · end of year $20,234,200

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $38,972,493 · end of year $41,446,795

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $665,578 · end of year $297,154

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,270,130 · end of year $518,467

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $9,139,063 · end of year $9,491,784

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $135,020 · end of year $105,892

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $21,153,676 · end of year $23,833,461

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $40,892,289 · end of year $40,487,041

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL IS TO PROVIDE A SUPERIOR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, IN A COMMUNITY OF TRUST, THAT PREPARES STUDENTS FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL IS DUALLY ACCREDITED BY SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (SAIS) AND ADVANCED AND BY PAIS, CUM LAUDE SOCIETY AND THE COLLEGE BOARD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SDS IS A COLLEGE PREPARATORY, CO-EDUCATIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-K THROUGH 12.

  • SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL IS A NATIONALLY ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 2K-12 LOCATED IN SPARTANBURG SC. THE SCHOOL PROVIDES A COLLEGE PREPARATORY EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS IN 3 SCHOOL DIVISIONS: LOWER SCHOOL - GRADES 2K-4THMIDDLE SCHOOL - GRADES 5-8UPPER SCHOOL - GRADES 9-12

    Expenses $12,337,126 · Grants $2,086,903 · Revenue $13,000,253

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jaime Wall

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Susan Bridges

    TRUSTEE EMERITA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Bhargava Kondaveeti

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Billy Webster

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Raj Patel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Elizabeth Rabb

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Ned Page

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Leign Ann Langley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lucy Lynch

    ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Bear Boyd

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jared Wilson

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Mark Vangeison

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • David Johnson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Scott Cochran

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Sheila Cash

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPER

    Total calculated
    $144,000
    From this org
    $126,483
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,517
    Hours/week
    40
  • Barney Gosnell

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Anna Blanton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Dr Sharda Jackson-Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Stacy McBride

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Michel Stone

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Steve Querin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Charlotte Verreault

    TRUSTEE EMERITA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Mary Stewart Loring

    PARENTS' COMMUNITY REPRESE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Elaine Freeman

    TRUSTEE EMERITA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • David Skeen

    HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $562,402
    From this org
    $405,025
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $157,377
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $405,025
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $136,977
    Filer's total
    $562,402
  • John Corbitt

    DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

    Total calculated
    $120,267
    From this org
    $114,540
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,727
    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.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Discretionary spending account
  • 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 1A
THE SCHOOL PAYS FOR THE MEMBERSHIP AND DUES TO THE PIEDMONT CLUB, A DINING AND SOCIAL CLUB FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENTERTAINMENT OF CONSTITUENTS FOR PURPOSES OF SCHOOL RELATED BUSINESS. ANY PERSONAL USE AT THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS REIMBURSED TO THE SCHOOL BY THE HEAD OF SCHOOL.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 May 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202601339349303285

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