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GREATER COLUMBUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

EIN 81-0788139 COLUMBUS, IN

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Revenue 2024
$691,409
Expenses 2024
$608,510

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S41
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 682

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

TO BUILD A WORLD-CLASS COMMUNITY BY ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND PERSONAL WELL-BEING OF OUR CITIZENS.

  • ADMINISTRATIVE AND MARKETING SERVICES FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF NEW BUSINESSES: EDC WORKS AND ACTS AS THE COORDINATOR OF NEW BUSINESS RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, INDIANA. THESE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE ACTIVELY MARKETING AND SEEKING NEW BUSINESSES TO LOCATE IN COLUMBUS, EDINBURGH, AND THE OTHER COMMUNITIES OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, AND PROVIDING SITE LOCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES TO THOSE POTENTIAL NEW BUSINESSES.

    Expenses $374,819 · Revenue $208,139

  • ADMINISTRATIVE AND MARKETING SERVICES FOR THE RETENTION AND EXPANSION OF EXISTING PRIMARY BUSINESSES: EDC WORKS AND ACTS AS THE COORDINATOR OF EXISTING BUSINESS RETENTION AND EXPANSION ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, INDIANA. THESE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE ACTIVELY MEETING ONEONONE WITH EXISTING PRIMARY BUSINESSES AND ENCOURAGING BUSINESS RETENTION BY IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING ANY IMPEDIMENTS TO INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS OR BUSINESS NEEDS. SERVICES ALSO INCLDUE ALL NECESSARY ACTIVITIES RELATED TO BUSINESS EXPANSION INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IDENTIFYING, ASSEMBLING, AND SUBMITTING APPLICABLE EXPANSION SPACE, SECURING STATE AND LOCAL INCENTIVE PACKAGES, AND OVERSEEING THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

    Expenses $55,979 · Revenue $31,086

  • INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT: EDC WORKS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO IDENTIFY NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS, EXPANSIONS, OR NEW INVESTMENTS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD ACCESS, WATER AND SEWER PROJECTS, AND OTHER PROJECTS DEEMED NECESSARY TO SUPPORT EXISTING AND NEW PROSPECTIVE BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, IDENTIFYING RELEVANT PROPERTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES INCLUDING BUSINESS RETENTION, EXPANSION, AND ATTRACTION PROJECTS, AND ADVISING RELEVANT PUBLIC AND PRIVATESECTOR STAKEHOLDERS ON NECESSARY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES.

    Expenses $55,979 · Revenue $31,086

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.

  • Jason Hester

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $156,459
    From this org
    $156,459
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,459
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $156,459
  • Amanda Meza

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brad Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Buck Ritz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Clayton Force

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Courtney Metzger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Doup

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeanine Scheidler

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Zike

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Abedian

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Sackett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kent Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kylie Foster

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leah Beyer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marc Rothbart

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Wasserman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Chiado

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nick Seger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Quick

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarabeth Drybread

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Ballard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Newlund

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shen Macheel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Swails

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $691,409
    Expenses
    $608,510
    Contributions
    $483,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $497,995
    Expenses
    $490,250
    Contributions
    $325,090
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $526,632
    Expenses
    $552,682
    Contributions
    $307,075
    Grants paid
    $17,238

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
    $431,904
    Expenses
    $420,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $522,603
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,317
    Expenses
    $374,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $514,112
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $480,319
    Expenses
    $439,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $439,069
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,391
    Expenses
    $475,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $398,514
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $524,458
    Expenses
    $522,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $386,452
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $522,358
    Expenses
    $494,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $676,001

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.