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GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT

GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,375 to it, the largest being GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($46,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$565k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Greater Gaston Development Corporat does

Mission

The ggdc is a private sector led non-profit corporation, formed in 2014 for the sole purpose of strengthening factors influencing gaston county's economic competitiveness. The organization has served as a leader, catalyst, convener, and facilitator of strategic initiatives designed to unite and align public, private, and non-profit entities behind a pro- growth agenda. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to substantially increase capital investment and sustainable job development in gaston county. Since the ggdc's 2014 inception, gaston county enjoyed moderate incremental economic development success. But in 2019, it found itself at an inflection point in its growth trajectory. With strong development momentum occurring throughout the county, the ggdc in conjunction with partners worked to identify and address the associated opportunities and challenges to ensure long-term community benefit. The ggdc-strategically and uniquely positioned to help create and drive forward gaston-helped

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

The positive economic prospects our gaston county community faced in 2019 did not randomly appear. The ggdc, along with the public and private sectors, worked collaboratively to position gaston county to create and take advantage of growth opportunities. Much of the ggdc's early efforts were guided by the organization's 2014 alliance for growth plan, developed in partnership with over 100 gaston county leaders, which focused on seven strategic growth priorities comprised of 1) countywide image building & marketing, 2) entrepreneurial & small business growth, 3) workforce preparedness, 4) new & expanded business recruitment, 5) growth & regulatory processes, 6) sites, buildings, & infrastructure, and 7) transportation & access. In 2019, the ggdc was engaged in a number of activities in support of its mission. Advocacy for transportation infrastructure investments, like advancing a comprehensive multijurisdictional multimodal transportation vision for the charlotte region, was a major component of ggdc efforts. The gaston outside campaign, launched in june 2016 to build awareness within the real estate, business, and homebuyer audiences of economic opportunities throughout gaston…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($587k) Expenses 100 ($579k) Net assets 100 ($337k)2018 Revenue 65 ($381k) Expenses 112 ($647k) Net assets 21 ($70k)2019 Revenue 73 ($429k) Expenses 77 ($445k) Net assets 16 ($55k)2020 Revenue 96 ($565k) Expenses 107 ($620k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020
Revenue (96)Expenses (107)Net assets (0)

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 $478k to $168k (−65%).

$478k
$168k
$63k
$0
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
−$266k
’18
−$15k
’19
−$55k
’20
1.6
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed21211517
Joined·+5+3+4
No longer listed·592
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $36k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT’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.

Where its funders are

100% of GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

13% of spending goes to programs.

Program 13%Management 87%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT: 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 GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT?
GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,375 to it, the largest being GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($46,375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $46,375 in grants to GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT?
GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER GASTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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