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HIGHTS INC

EIN 26-1566023 CULLOWHEE, NC

Revenue 2024
$4,435,281
Expenses 2024
$3,329,221

Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C60
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 865

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).

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.

  • Marcus Metcalf

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $88,349
    From this org
    $77,271
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,078
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paul Heckert

    Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $89,962
    From this org
    $80,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,539
    Hours/week
    40

  • Frederick Buskey

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Jennifer Hinton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $600
    From this org
    $600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ellen Miller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Matthew Blackburn

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caitlin Torrence

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brent McCoy

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Dr Tracie Metz

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Stacy Adams

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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 — 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
    $4,435,281
    Expenses
    $3,329,221
    Contributions
    $2,860,707
    Grants paid
    $6,600
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,592,378
    Expenses
    $2,917,628
    Contributions
    $2,589,537
    Grants paid
    $8,700
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,712,464
    Expenses
    $2,219,904
    Contributions
    $2,498,762
    Grants paid
    $47,143

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 10 September 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.