North Carolina · Nonprofit
GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC
GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,608 to it, the largest being GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($164,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $261k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Gaston Together Communities of Excellence Inc does
Mission
The mission of gaston together is to bring the people and resources of gaston county together to tackle big community challenges through the principles and best practices of collaboration, facilitation, promotion and the anticipation of possibilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement leadership developed in response to community request to create a potential pool of future leaders for gaston county - since pilot class 2017, 132 graduates have completed the process designed for 20-25 per cohort. - process includes eight sessions: six 8-hour sessions and two 6-hour sessions - goals: intentional cross-sector community building; in-depth personal awareness and personal skills development; and greater knowledge of gaston county.
$2,247 spent$599 earned by the program2% of program spendingHealthcare commission: established to develop a workable community-wide agenda to improve the health status of citizens in gaston county. Current focus areas: - healthy gaston - seeks to create a culture of wellness in businesses, schools and churches and thereby improve the vitality of organizations and ultimately impact individual health. - policy and advocacy teams: 1) gaston controlled substances coalition with over 100 members serving the coalition and focused on the opioid epidemic 2) health in all aspects, which develops policies in support of environments that enable county residents to achieve healthy outcomes.
$888 spent1% of program spendingCommunity leadership programs: to build and promote community pride in gaston county - community leadership awards promotes community pride and showcases positive community improvement/enhancements. Presented to an organization that has used non-silo, unique problem-solving process to improve quality of life in gaston county. Over 250 attend annual event. - pride in gaston traveling tour and proudest kid in gaston county essay contest for third graders, builds community pride in young students. All public schools and many private schools participate each year representing over 2500 students annually. Since its creation in the 2000-2001 school year, over 50,000 students have participated in this program.
$119,325 spent$51,313 earned by the program97% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,460.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $50k to $172k (+245%).
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: 2019 14% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Amia Massey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $34k → $8k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $273k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gaston Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC’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 TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 72% · 2019 70% · 2020 53% · 2021 75% · 2022 91% · 2023 62% — 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
98% of GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC'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. $108 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 TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC: 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 TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC?
- GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,608 to it, the largest being GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($164,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $260,608 in grants to GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC?
- GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC 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 2017–2025), 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