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MARS HILL UNIVERSITY

EIN 56-0554207 MARS HILL, NC

Revenue 2024
$61,867,647
Expenses 2024
$62,498,458

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B420
Classification
2000
Street
100 ATHLETIC ST

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.

  • BRENT TOWNSEND

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ANNA RENFRO

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • W WAYNE HIGGINS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PAUL POWELL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JOHN S AYERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AMANDA BEATTY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARK CABANISS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MIKE CRANFORD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JULIAN CUTHBERTSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BRIAN DANFORTH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • WILL DAVIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JAMESON DONNELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DOUG ECHOLS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CAROLYN FERGUSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MICHAEL V GROCE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • GENE HOLDWAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AC HONEYCUTT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DON ICENHOWER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • PAULA KAHN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MIKE KELLY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AUSTIN LEE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ERIC MANN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CAROLE MARTIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JEFF MILES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CHERYL PAPPAS

    TRUSTEE

    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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $61,867,647
    Expenses
    $62,498,458
    Contributions
    $6,101,390
    Grants paid
    $27,325,886
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $51,610,623
    Expenses
    $57,669,419
    Contributions
    $4,834,456
    Grants paid
    $24,829,361
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $52,018,098
    Expenses
    $54,744,823
    Contributions
    $8,231,480
    Grants paid
    $21,640,386

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

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