- 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.
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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
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $881,426 · Grants $748,027 · Revenue $101,775
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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.
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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
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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
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Lee King - Lees-McRae College
Interim Chair/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Burton Webb - University of Pikevil
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Jim Stepp - Alice Lloyd College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Cheryl Nixon - Berea College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Jamie Caridi - Bethany College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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David Olive - Bluefield University
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Bradley Andrews - Brevard College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Douglas Mann - Bryan College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Joseph Hopkins - Campbellsville Uni
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Charles Fowler - Carson-Newman Univ
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Chris Wood - Davis and Elkins Colle
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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John Wells - Emory and Henry Colleg
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mirta Martin - Ferrum College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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L Thomas Smith - Johnson University
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Alexander Whitaker - King Universit
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Terry Allcorn - Kentucky Christian
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Paul Conn - Lee University
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Fred Whitt - Lenoir Rhyne Universit
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Jason McConnell - Lincoln Memorial
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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William Luckey - Lindsey Wilson Col
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Tony Floyd - Mars Hill University
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Bryan Coker - Maryville College
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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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
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,966,701
- Expenses
- $4,650,592
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,357,226
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,630,914
- Expenses
- $4,253,008
- Assets (EOY)
- $39,696,056
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,294,648
- Expenses
- $4,274,145
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,354,747
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,516,337
- Expenses
- $4,547,784
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,042,664
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,061,567
- Expenses
- $4,532,265
- Assets (EOY)
- $31,818,724
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,646,338
- Expenses
- $4,926,092
- Assets (EOY)
- $29,961,701
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,585,694
- Expenses
- $4,343,020
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,093,632
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,041,755
- Expenses
- $4,180,791
- Assets (EOY)
- $29,600,772
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $4,766,921
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,140,207
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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
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$71,363
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$64,619
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$58,095
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$57,000
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$57,000
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$56,894
2023 Financial Education for Students
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$32,000
2023 Financial Education for Students
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See Supplemental Information
no cash amount reported
2022
Grants received
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$0
2022 FINDING THE WAY FORWARD: RISK, REWARD, AND BUILDING CAPACITY TOGETHER
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.