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GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY

EIN 56-0529972 BOILING SPGS, NC

Revenue 2024
$107,714,396
Expenses 2024
$103,358,614

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B43
Classification
7200
Street
PO BOX 997

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).

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.

  • GARY H SMITH

    CHAIR (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAMONT LITTLEJOHN

    CHAIR (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA TUCKER

    TREASURER (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM BELL

    SECRETARY (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID BRINKLEY

    VICE CHAIR (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED COOK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VERHONDA CRAWFORD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL ELLIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS GASH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERESA HAMRICK HUGGINS

    TRUSTEE (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DELAINA ADAMS JONES

    TRUSTEE (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSE SPRINKLE

    TREASURER (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN TEETER

    TRUSTEE (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENSEN TURNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHILIP TURNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARCHIE WOOD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REV RAY HARDEE

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR ASHLEY LOWERY

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CINDY PUTNAM-EVANS

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REV JOHNNY SEARIGHT

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA SHELTON

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM M DOWNS

    PRESIDENT (THRU 2/2025)

    Total calculated
    $564,328
    From this org
    $492,372
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $71,956
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $492,372
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    $51,256
    Filer's total
    $564,328

  • KAREN AUBREY

    PROVOST

    Total calculated
    $213,727
    From this org
    $201,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,157
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,570
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,094
    Nontaxable benefits
    $63
    Filer's total
    $213,727

  • MICHAEL WHITEMAN

    VP FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $212,402
    From this org
    $174,562
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,840
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,562
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,310
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,530
    Filer's total
    $212,402

  • DEAN CLARK

    VP FOR ENROLLMENT

    Total calculated
    $177,711
    From this org
    $158,227
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,484
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,227
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,623
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,861
    Filer's total
    $177,711

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 — 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
    $107,714,396
    Expenses
    $103,358,614
    Contributions
    $7,262,999
    Grants paid
    $35,604,236
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $101,871,457
    Expenses
    $99,861,154
    Contributions
    $11,582,345
    Grants paid
    $32,337,644
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $97,349,269
    Expenses
    $99,286,236
    Contributions
    $11,076,188
    Grants paid
    $30,895,449

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

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 as related by

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 10 September 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.