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THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC

EIN 58-0644897 THOMASVILLE, GA

Revenue 2024
$21,320,601
Expenses 2024
$22,361,025

Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
2000
Street
1550 MAGNOLIA 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.

  • MR BOB RHODES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR RANKIN SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR PHILIP LEABO

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR STEPHEN CHENEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR GENE LORD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR CHARLES DIXON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR GEORGE LILLY II

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR CLINT KADEL

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR ERIK VON HELLENS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MRS EVE RUMBLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR WILSON CARRAWAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR VANN MIDDLETON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR RANDY RHEA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MS KATHY VIGNOS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR SCOTT RICH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR JEFF MERSCHMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MRS REBECCA STRICKLAND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MRS PAT CHOICE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR RAY THOMPSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MR MARVIN DAWSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MS ALYSSA BLAKELY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR ANDY SHEPPARD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $385,457
    From this org
    $353,345
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,112
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $353,345
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,612
    Filer's total
    $385,457

  • KURT STRINGFELLOW

    VP OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $130,667
    From this org
    $129,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,612
    Hours/week
    55

  • DR JOHN K MEIS

    PROVOST

    Total calculated
    $126,382
    From this org
    $113,751
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,631
    Hours/week
    50

  • SUSAN BACKOFEN

    VP OF ENROLLMENT

    Total calculated
    $131,686
    From this org
    $116,148
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,538
    Hours/week
    50

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
    $21,320,601
    Expenses
    $22,361,025
    Contributions
    $3,421,065
    Grants paid
    $2,654,559
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,418,752
    Expenses
    $22,948,905
    Contributions
    $3,993,063
    Grants paid
    $2,594,537
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,778,605
    Expenses
    $20,142,447
    Contributions
    $2,763,003
    Grants paid
    $2,589,249

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.

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.