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SMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC

EIN 56-1859989 LEXINGTON, NC

Revenue 2024
$4,682,763
Expenses 2024
$4,709,865

Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B012
Classification
2100
Street
820 GRIMES BLVD

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

SMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, INC. WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1994 TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, PRIMARILY AGES BIRTH THROUGH FIVE. THE FOCUS OF ALL PROGRAMS IS TO ENSURE THAT CHILDREN ARE HEALTHY AND READY TO SUCCEED IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE. CORE SERVICES INCLUDE CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES, CHILD CARE QUALITY AND FAMILY SUPPORT.

  • SMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, INC. WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1994 TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, PRIMARILY AGES BIRTH THROUGH FIVE. THE FOCUS OF ALL PROGRAMS IS TO ENSURE THAT CHILDREN ARE HEALTHY AND READY TO SUCCEED IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE. CORE SERVICES INCLUDE CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES, CHILD CARE QUALITY AND FAMILY SUPPORT.

    Expenses $4,451,056 · Grants $3,889,271

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.

  • Mary Draughn

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $64,335
    From this org
    $64,335
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Beth Adkins

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Bleasha Carroll

    ASSISTANT SE

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Leslie Clark

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Carolyn Curry

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Lynda Hepler

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Tami Holtzmann

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Lillian Koontz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Janice Lanning

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Nancy Newcomb

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jason Roland

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Kennie Sledge

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Don Stewart

    ASSISTANT TR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Laura Sweitzer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Hannah Vinson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Ron Wyatt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $4,682,763
    Expenses
    $4,709,865
    Contributions
    $4,651,147
    Grants paid
    $3,889,271
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,870,845
    Expenses
    $4,765,590
    Contributions
    $4,834,016
    Grants paid
    $3,795,350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,768,946
    Expenses
    $4,832,045
    Contributions
    $4,754,071
    Grants paid
    $3,879,681

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
    $4,681,489
    Expenses
    $4,700,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $238,451

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,716,031
    Expenses
    $4,692,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,267

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,555,022
    Expenses
    $4,549,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,366

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,529,568
    Expenses
    $4,525,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $177,557

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,399,976
    Expenses
    $4,403,393
    Assets (EOY)
    $173,278

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,410,948
    Expenses
    $4,406,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,701

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,434,050
    Expenses
    $4,427,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $172,640

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.

Grants made

  • DAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS

    $925,842

    2023 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • DAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS

    $892,234

    2022 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • DAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS

    $493,768

    2024 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • LEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS

    $361,826

    2023 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • LEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS

    $346,208

    2024 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • LEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS

    $331,824

    2022 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • A CHILDS WORLD

    $266,298

    2022 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • BRIGHTER HORIZONS CHILD DEVELOPMENT

    $264,776

    2024 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • THOMASVILLE CITY SCHOOLS

    $260,715

    2023 IMPROVE QUALITY

  • A CHILDS WORLD

    $254,960

    2023 IMPROVE QUALITY

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

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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.