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← CONVERSE UNIVERSITY

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CONVERSE UNIVERSITY.

Totals

Total revenue
$50,688,632
Total expenses
$47,603,490
Contributions and grants received
$12,095,068
Grants paid
$10,212,170
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$40,118,204
Management and general expenses
$5,624,015
Fundraising expenses
$1,861,271
Program service expenses (Part III)
$40,118,204

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • WALLACE PRESTWOOD

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA REDDING

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTY STONER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLEN SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANT BYNUM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRELAN MONTGOMERY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS CANNON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID SMART

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAWN DECK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DWIGHT VAN INWEGEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY RUSHING

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FAIN MCDANIEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY LYNCH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARLA JONES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHERINE FULMER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIM KENT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOUIS SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN PETTUS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHEL STONE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL COTE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RHONDA COKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANDRA MORELLI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANDRA WATSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANNON JAYNES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE JOHNSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STINSON FERGUSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PALMER BALL

    TRUSTEE - EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VALERIE DOWLING

    TRUSTEE - EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR BOONE HOPKINS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $313,667
    From this org
    $260,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,752
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,915
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,752
    Filer's total
    $313,667

  • KRISTIN LACEY

    VP OPERATIONS & CFO

    Total calculated
    $199,717
    From this org
    $162,772
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,945
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,772
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,195
    Filer's total
    $199,717

  • JAMIE GRANT-PONCE

    VP FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

    Total calculated
    $112,889
    From this org
    $100,956
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,933
    Hours/week
    40

  • WILL CASE

    PROVOST

    Total calculated
    $128,119
    From this org
    $112,466
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,653
    Hours/week
    40

  • KESHIA JACKSON GILLIAM

    ASSOCIATE VP OF HUMAN RESOURCES

    Total calculated
    $141,153
    From this org
    $108,388
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,765
    Hours/week
    40

  • CORI MCCLURE

    CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $125,288
    From this org
    $102,482
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,806
    Hours/week
    40

  • KIM JOLLEY

    ASSISTANT VP FOR PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $117,590
    From this org
    $106,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,852
    Hours/week
    40

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.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
  • 1a · Personal services (maid, chauffeur, chef)
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 1A
ALL OF DR. HOPKINS, PRESIDENT'S COMPENSATION PACKAGE WAS WRITTEN IN HIS ANNUAL COMPENSATION CONTRACT AND WAS REVIEWED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. THE UNIVERSITY PROVIDED HOUSING AND WEEKLY HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES TO HIM FOR THE UNIVERSITY'S CONVENIENCE SO THAT HE COULD PERFORM ESSENTIAL BUSINESS AND ACTIVITIES AT THE HOME. THESE AMOUNTS WERE NONTAXABLE COMPENSATION AND ARE REPORTED AS SUCH IN SCHEDULE J, PART II, COLUMN D.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
6 February 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202600429349300215

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