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APPALACHIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION

EIN 56-1758784 LEXINGTON, KY

Revenue 2023
$5,086,965
Expenses 2023
$5,251,004

Program services were 83.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99Z
Classification
2000
Street
3499 BLAZER PKWY STE 330

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 · 2023

Mission

ACA is an organization of 33 independent liberal arts higher education institutions that provides expanded and enhanced learning opportunities to faculty, staff, and students for the purpose of serving the educational and economic wellbeing of the people of Central Appalachia.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Incorporated on August 6, 1993, ACA primarily serves the people of the Central Appalachian region by providing/enhancing higher education and related services.

  • Library and Shared Catalog - The ACA Bowen Central Library of Appalachia partners with each member institution to make it economically possible to provide all ACA member students, faculty, and staff with the best electronic library information resources available. The resources are used to help students, faculty, and staff attain the best possible learning outcomes.

    Expenses $3,347,806 · Grants $10,127 · Revenue $3,087,852

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $881,426 · Grants $748,027 · Revenue $101,775

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $149,800 · Grants $144,143

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nancy E Rushing - Appalachian Colle

    President

    Total calculated
    $171,771
    From this org
    $154,745
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,026
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,745
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,026
    Filer's total
    $171,771
  • Larry Hall - Appalachian College As

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $139,037
    From this org
    $125,331
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,706
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related
  • Lee King - Lees-McRae College

    Interim Chair/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Burton Webb - University of Pikevil

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jim Stepp - Alice Lloyd College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Cheryl Nixon - Berea College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jamie Caridi - Bethany College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • David Olive - Bluefield University

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bradley Andrews - Brevard College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Douglas Mann - Bryan College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Joseph Hopkins - Campbellsville Uni

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Charles Fowler - Carson-Newman Univ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Chris Wood - Davis and Elkins Colle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • John Wells - Emory and Henry Colleg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Mirta Martin - Ferrum College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • L Thomas Smith - Johnson University

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Alexander Whitaker - King Universit

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Terry Allcorn - Kentucky Christian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Paul Conn - Lee University

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Fred Whitt - Lenoir Rhyne Universit

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jason McConnell - Lincoln Memorial

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • William Luckey - Lindsey Wilson Col

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Tony Floyd - Mars Hill University

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bryan Coker - Maryville College

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bill Greer - Milligan University

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,086,965
    Expenses
    $5,251,004
    Contributions
    $1,092,066
    Grants paid
    $902,287
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,304,923
    Expenses
    $4,650,144
    Contributions
    $582,555
    Grants paid
    $428,225

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
    $4,966,701
    Expenses
    $4,650,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,357,226
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,630,914
    Expenses
    $4,253,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,696,056
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,294,648
    Expenses
    $4,274,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,354,747
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,516,337
    Expenses
    $4,547,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,042,664
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,061,567
    Expenses
    $4,532,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,818,724
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,646,338
    Expenses
    $4,926,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,961,701
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,585,694
    Expenses
    $4,343,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,093,632
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,041,755
    Expenses
    $4,180,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,600,772
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,766,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,140,207
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,613,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,554,471

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.