North Carolina · Nonprofit
Gaston Skills Incorporated
Gaston Skills Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,686 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY ($87,171). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Gaston Skills Incorporated does
Mission
Assist individuals with mental and physical disabilities and their families by offering high quality services with guidance, support and involvement by providing resources to promote their integration into the community through counseling, activities, work preparation services, job placement, and life enrichment activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Organization's primary program provides individual, one-on-one, or intensive small group services that are goal-oriented. These services provide severely limited individuals the opportunity to benefit from specifically structured individual programs that are designed to work toward specific goals that meet the vocational or social needs of the individual.
$1,113,958 spent$1,602,326 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe production department provides quality industrial work for many businesses and industries in the area. GSI production team members include both individuals with disabilities and model employees who play a mentoring role. This department will provide small parts assembly, packaging, bulk mailing, collating, re-work, salvaging operations and small parts inspections. Contracted work provides actual paid work for people involved in vocational and work adjustment services and will provide work opportunities for the people who are waiting for placement in an integrated, community-based job.
$362,250 spent$464,479 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,476,208.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.0M (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 13% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Gaston Skills Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $34k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Gaston Skills Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Gaston Skills Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Gaston Skills Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of Gaston Skills Incorporated's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Gaston Skills Incorporated is better cushioned than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Gaston Skills Incorporated
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Gaston Skills Incorporated: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Gaston Skills Incorporated?
- Gaston Skills Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,686 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY ($87,171). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gaston Skills Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $145,686 in grants to Gaston Skills Incorporated, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gaston Skills Incorporated?
- UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $87,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gaston Skills Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing