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COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY

EIN 88-2145735 COLUMBUS, OH

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Revenue 2024
$2,166,930
Expenses 2024
$2,548,546

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B24
Classification
2000
Street
2000 POLARIS PKWY

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

COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCULCATES IN OUR STUDENTS, THROUGH A GENUINE AND RIGOROUS CLASSICAL EDUCATION IN THE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, THE KNOWLEDGE AND VIRTUE UPON WHICH INDEPENDENT, RESPONSIBLE, AND JOYFUL LIVES ARE BUILT, IN THE FIRM BELIEF THAT SUCH LIVES ARE THE FOUNDATION OF A FREE AND FLOURISHING REPUBLIC.

  • IN AUGUST 2023, COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OPENED ITS DOORS TO 61 STUDENTS IN GRADES K-8, PROVIDING A RIGOROUS, LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION USING HILLSDALE COLLEGES WORLD CLASS, K-12 CURRICULUM. NEARLY 300,000 IN TUITION ASSISTANCE WAS GIVEN TO FAMILIES IN NEED, WHILE APPROXIMATELY 60% OF THE TOTAL OPERATING BUDGET WENT TOWARD RETAINING CCAS EXCEPTIONAL FACULTY AND STAFF. INSTRUCTION IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES UTILIZED THE SINGAPORE MATH CURRICULUM, EXPLICIT PHONICS, AND CLASSIC CHILDRENS LITERATURE. UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS CONDUCTED OVER 90 SCIENCE LABS, READ AND DISCUSSED GREAT LITERARY WORKS, AND LEARNED HISTORY, FROM THE ANCIENT TO THE MODERN ERA. MORE THAN 250 RECITATIONS OF CLASSIC POETRY AND GREAT SPEECHES WERE PERFORMED BY STUDENTS OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR. EVERY STUDENT RECEIVED INSTRUCTION IN THE FINE ARTS, CREATING WORKS OF THEIR OWN, AS WELL AS MIMICKING THOSE OF THE MASTERS LIKE VAN GOGH AND MATISSE. STUDENTS ALSO PUT ON CCAS INAUGURAL CHRISTMAS AND SPRING CONCERTS, SINGING AND PLAYING INSTRUMENTS LIKE THE UKELELE AND PIANO. THE SCHOOLS THEATER CLUB PERFORMED ALICE IN WONDERLAND; EVERY STUDENT COMPETED IN THE GREEK GAMES; UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS RECEIVED TRAINING IN ETIQUETTE AND THE SOCIAL GRACES AT THE WINTER WONDER LUNCHEON; AND THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY VISITED THE OHIO THEATER TO SEE A BALLET PERFORMANCE OF THE NUTCRACKER. CCAS INAUGURAL YEAR CONCLUDED WITH A CLOSING CEREMONY AT WHICH AWARDS FOR VIRTUE AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCETHE GOALS OF A COLUMBUS CLASSICAL EDUCATIONWERE GIVEN TO DESERVING STUDENTS, INCLUDING THE THOMAS JEFFERSON AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP, AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AWARD FOR INTEGRITY.

    Expenses $1,934,391 · Revenue $807,971

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

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.

  • Daniel Gibson

    HEAD OF SCHO

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Michael Gross

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • David Myhal

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Rebecca Hurd

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Thomas King

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Chris Lightfoot

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • David Durell

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Leland Vogel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Sarah Purdy

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $2,166,930
    Expenses
    $2,548,546
    Contributions
    $1,296,626
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,998,598
    Expenses
    $2,369,367
    Contributions
    $1,502,363
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,044,787
    Expenses
    $511,406
    Contributions
    $2,009,510
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022
Principal officer
Daniel Gibson
Mailing address
1 Balfour GreenNew Albany OH 43054

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.