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CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY

EIN 45-4013739 RUTHERFORDTON, NC

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Revenue 2023
$15,718,215
Expenses 2023
$14,750,443

Program services were 78.4% 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
PO BOX 86

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

47 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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 · 2023

Mission

To operate a public charter school for the education of children.

  • The school is a public charter school operated for the education of children for the Department of Public Instruction for the State of North Carolina.

    Expenses $11,557,862 · Revenue $15,718,215

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Crystall Scillitani

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cyndie Swindlehurst

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Andrew Wright

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Caraher

    School Director

    Total calculated
    $153,694
    From this org
    $153,694
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,694
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,450
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $163,144

  • John Lawrence

    School Director

    Total calculated
    $102,824
    From this org
    $102,824
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chris Gorham

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jonetta Appling

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Claire Dobbs

    Finance Manager

    Total calculated
    $70,840
    From this org
    $70,840
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ryan Homer

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,718,215
    Expenses
    $14,750,443
    Contributions
    $14,257,335
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,042,441
    Expenses
    $12,879,994
    Contributions
    $13,571,865
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,898,113
    Expenses
    $12,085,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,926,474

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,869,644
    Expenses
    $11,615,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,722,732

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,836,305
    Expenses
    $4,717,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,676,451

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,956,633
    Expenses
    $3,676,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,252,365

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,897,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,231,090

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.