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NATIONAL CENTER FOR GROW YOUR OWN

EIN 87-3710216 PLYMOUTH, MI

Largest nonprofits in Michigan

Revenue 2024
$3,922,825
Expenses 2024
$1,797,622

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
B02
Classification
2000
Street
460 PARKVIEW DR

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

NCGYOs mission is to create a world where one can become an educator for free while getting paid to do so, primarily via Grow Your Own and Registered Apprenticeship programs.

  • NCGYO provides technical assistance and professional learning networks to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) in partnership with institutes of higher education (IHEs) or Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) as they launch or expand Grow your Own and/or Registered Apprenticeship programs in the K-12 education sector. We also serve as a thought-leader in the space, advancing the apprenticeship model as the gold standard of teacher preparation through such activities as speaking at conferences, serving on government-sponsored committees, testifying to legislatures, and speaking on webinars.

    Expenses $1,364,261

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.

  • David Donaldson

    CEO and Founder

    Total calculated
    $309,977
    From this org
    $309,977
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $309,977
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $309,977

  • Carla Warren

    Senior Partner

    Total calculated
    $144,951
    From this org
    $144,951
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ben Gagne-Maynard

    Senior Partner

    Total calculated
    $135,492
    From this org
    $135,492
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Zion M Woodhull

    Senior Partner

    Total calculated
    $120,908
    From this org
    $120,908
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Naima Khandaker

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01

  • Rob Guttersohn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01

  • Kelly Yorke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01

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
    $3,922,825
    Expenses
    $1,797,622
    Contributions
    $1,435,727
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,730,250
    Expenses
    $614,862
    Contributions
    $570,100
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $438,850
    Expenses
    $221,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $451,350

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022
Principal officer
David Donaldson
Mailing address
460 Parkview DrivePlymouth MI 48170
Website
ncgyo.org

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.