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GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC

EIN 26-4812778 LINVILLE, NC

Revenue 2024
$10,453,680
Expenses 2024
$9,444,252

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 129

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.

  • GORDON WARBURTON

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CATHERINE WALKER MORTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIA MACRAE MORTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE LEONARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON BARRETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB BIGGERSTAFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSE POPE

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $233,055
    From this org
    $233,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,050
    Bonus
    $92,005
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $233,055

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
    $10,453,680
    Expenses
    $9,444,252
    Contributions
    $1,766,874
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,350,552
    Expenses
    $8,165,272
    Contributions
    $801,485
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,848,906
    Expenses
    $7,314,138
    Contributions
    $562,637
    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

  • 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

  • 2022 · 990-T

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,793,646
    Expenses
    $5,853,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,676,057

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,172,662
    Expenses
    $5,264,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,989,424

  • 2020 · 990-T

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

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,535,302
    Expenses
    $5,417,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,174,315

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,761,072
    Expenses
    $5,204,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,997,090

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,501,205
    Expenses
    $4,982,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,661,752

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

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.