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GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC

EIN 56-6076613 GASTONIA, NC

Revenue 2024
$12,247,016
Expenses 2024
$11,878,676

Program services were 70.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B200
Classification
2000
Street
2001 GASTON DAY SCHOOL RD

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

GASTON DAY SCHOOL (GDS) IS AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL WHOSE MISSION IS TO EDUCATE OUR STUDENTS AND PREPARE THEM FOR SUCCESS AND RESPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE LIVES. GDS OFFERS AN EXPERIENCE THAT REWARDS STUDENTS FOR A LIFETIME AND GIVES THEM AN EDUCATION THAT GOES FAR BEYOND OUR CURRICULUM.

  • GASTON DAY SCHOOL, INC. (GDS) IS A NONSECTARIAN, COLLEGE-PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GRADES PRESCHOOL THROUGH 12 WITH OVER 500 STUDENTS. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IS THE SCHOOL'S HALLMARK: THE ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL SCORE IN THE TOP HALF OF THE NATION'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS ON STANDARDIZED TESTS; SAT SCORES ON CRITICAL READING AND MATH ARE CONSTANTLY GASTON COUNTY'S HIGHEST; AND OUR AP TEST PASS RATE IS OVER 80%. WITH GENERAL ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN ALL UPPER SCHOOL SUBJECTS, THE WRITING AND FINE ARTS PROGRAMS REGULARLY WIN REGIONAL AND NATIONAL AWARDS. ATHLETICS AND THE FINE ARTS REMAIN INTEGRAL TO THE COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION THAT THE SCHOOL PROVIDES. GDS HAS A RICH HISTORY AND LOOKS FORWARD TO A BRIGHT FUTURE OF CONTINUED GROWTH AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE.

    Expenses $8,333,991 · Grants $1,837,776 · Revenue $10,581,063

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.

  • Davidson Robert Hobson

    HEAD OF SCHO

    Total calculated
    $248,210
    From this org
    $230,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,210
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $15,000
    Deferred
    $6,450
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,760
    Filer's total
    $248,210

  • Vann Noblett

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $171,210
    From this org
    $155,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,210
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,344
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $6,656
    Deferred
    $4,450
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,760
    Filer's total
    $171,210

  • Tamara Burrell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Colyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Connor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leeann Harris

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ben Hinton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betsy Hurst

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Lebioda

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Morkor Newman

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Liz Sisk

    EX-OFFOCIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ernest Sumner

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Vanacore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pamela Warlick

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $12,247,016
    Expenses
    $11,878,676
    Contributions
    $881,166
    Grants paid
    $1,837,776
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $20,420,497
    Expenses
    $11,043,488
    Contributions
    $9,971,380
    Grants paid
    $1,490,168
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,633,875
    Expenses
    $10,422,585
    Contributions
    $575,966
    Grants paid
    $1,255,404

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
    $10,422,542
    Expenses
    $10,296,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,136,128

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,760,636
    Expenses
    $10,020,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,801,670

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,205,435
    Expenses
    $9,596,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,255,997

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,261,987
    Expenses
    $9,507,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,264,987

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,596,701
    Expenses
    $9,030,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,440,541

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

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