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GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

EIN 58-1340834 GASTONIA, NC

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Revenue 2024
$12,089,275
Expenses 2024
$11,491,725

Program services were 94.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T310
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 123

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

OUR MISSION IS TO INSPIRE GENEROSITY, UPLIFT NONPROFITS, AND CONNECT DONORS WITH COMMUNITY NEEDS.

  • SINCE 1978, GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HAS BEEN HELPING DONORS FULFILL THEIR PHILANTHROPIC DREAMS. INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS ESTABLISH FUNDS AT THE GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TO CARRY OUT THEIR CHARITABLE GIVING NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. WITH OVER 400 FUNDS UNDER MANAGEMENT, THE FOUNDATION ASSISTS DONORS WITH PLANNED GIVING OPTIONS FOR A CHARITABLE LEGACY, INCLUDING UNRESTRICTED FUNDS, FUNDS DESIGNATED FOR A SPECIFIC CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION OR FIELD OF INTEREST AS WELL AS MANY ADVISED FUNDS WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE DONOR CAN RECOMMEND GRANTS FOR A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY CAUSES.

    Expenses $7,909,758 · Grants $7,322,224 · Revenue $318,018

  • GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MAKES UNRESTRICTED GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS OPERATING IN GASTON COUNTY OR PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF GASTON COUNTY CITIZENS THROUGH AN ANNUAL COMPETITIVE GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS.

    Expenses $2,990,767 · Grants $2,990,767

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Nancy Paschall

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • David Rogers

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John McGill

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nazrul Chowdury

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Caldwell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Epstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Fayed

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Griffith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Kelvin Harris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Davidson Hobson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Peek

    INVESTMENT C

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Powell

    GRANTS CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Spencer

    DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Spencer

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennie Stultz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pam Warlick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Wofford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ernest W Sumner

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $202,485
    From this org
    $183,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,735
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,750
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,735
    Filer's total
    $202,485

  • John Lowery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane Pearson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steven Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,089,275
    Expenses
    $11,491,725
    Contributions
    $8,758,540
    Grants paid
    $10,312,991
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,263,491
    Expenses
    $8,944,535
    Contributions
    $5,031,577
    Grants paid
    $7,714,495
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,988,192
    Expenses
    $7,152,255
    Contributions
    $11,624,302
    Grants paid
    $5,757,213

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,636,833
    Expenses
    $7,216,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,627,590

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,893,354
    Expenses
    $6,125,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,747,982

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,541,595
    Expenses
    $7,170,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,745,726

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,638,126
    Expenses
    $8,266,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,010,137

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,135,812
    Expenses
    $5,833,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,122,549

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,344,755
    Expenses
    $5,911,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,636,753

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,476,197
    Expenses
    $4,770,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,875,069

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,114,424
    Expenses
    $4,621,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,984,305

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.