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← MONTESSORI COUNTRY SCHOOL OF MD INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MONTESSORI COUNTRY SCHOOL OF MD INC.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 24 July 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Both are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue
$5,082,422
Total expenses
$5,128,841
Contributions and grants received
$71,230
Grants paid
$224,698
Program service revenue
$4,866,910
Investment income
$131,344
Other revenue
$12,938
Total assets, end of year
$5,719,520
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,331,197
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,388,323
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,404,905
Management and general expenses
$695,206
Fundraising expenses
$28,730
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,404,905

Program services were 85.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $16,622

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $54,608

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MONTESSORI TUITION FEE

    total $3,671,628 · related or exempt $3,671,628

  • 2b · Program service revenue: SUMMER CAMP/CLASSES

    total $783,328 · related or exempt $783,328

  • 2c · Program service revenue: AUXILIARY SERVICES AND

    total $182,484 · related or exempt $182,484

  • 2d · Program service revenue: EQUESTRIAN

    total $149,913 · related or exempt $149,913

  • 2e · Program service revenue: INTERMEDIATE ACTIVITIE

    total $73,257 · related or exempt $73,257

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $6,300 · related or exempt $6,300

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $131,344 · excluded $131,344

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $3,281

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $3,281 · excluded $3,281

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS INCOME

    total $9,657 · related or exempt $9,657

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $9,657

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $224,698 · program services $224,698

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $180,800 · program services $36,900 · management and general $142,100 · fundraising $1,800

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,680,908 · program services $2,421,967 · management and general $239,856 · fundraising $19,085

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $75,067 · program services $68,186 · management and general $6,524 · fundraising $357

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $386,232 · program services $350,829 · management and general $33,568 · fundraising $1,835

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $228,334 · program services $193,866 · management and general $32,681 · fundraising $1,787

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $7,441 · program services $2,507 · management and general $4,929 · fundraising $5

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $22,857 · program services $7,701 · management and general $15,140 · fundraising $16

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $136,417 · program services $45,962 · management and general $90,359 · fundraising $96

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,763 · management and general $5,763

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $97,853 · program services $42,569 · management and general $55,274 · fundraising $10

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $356,641 · program services $320,977 · management and general $35,664

  • 17 · Travel

    total $11,522 · program services $11,522

  • 20 · Interest

    total $54,768 · program services $42,772 · management and general $11,996

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $213,522 · program services $192,170 · management and general $21,352

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $65,420 · program services $65,420

  • 24a · Other expenses: CLASSROOM EXPENSE

    total $188,649 · program services $188,649

  • 24b · Other expenses: CAMP & EQUESTRIAN EXPEN

    total $180,767 · program services $180,767

  • 24c · Other expenses: OTHER

    total $11,182 · program services $7,443 · fundraising $3,739

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $130,685 · end of year $365,522

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,412,690 · end of year $811,407

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $13,125 · end of year $3,933

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $37,479 · end of year $75,978

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $5,213,055

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $2,362,766

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,936,593 · end of year $2,850,289

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,464,584 · end of year $1,550,182

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $28,588 · end of year $62,209

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $190,541 · end of year $64,680

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,254,475 · end of year $1,164,755

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $1,116,158 · end of year $1,038,762

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $27,828 · end of year $63,000

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,425,957 · end of year $3,378,538

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $8,785 · end of year $9,785

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHOLE CHILD THROUGH AMI ACCREDITED ACADEMICS, MUSIC, ARTS, AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION AS WELL AS A UNIQUE EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $3,862,340 · Grants $224,698 · Revenue $3,671,628

  • CAMP: EACH SUMMER BUTLER MONTESSORI OFFERS A SUMMER CAMP, KNOWN AS "BUTLER CAMP" FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 1/2 TO 14. A VARIETY OF OUTDOOR AND INDOORS ACTIVITIES ARE OFFERED TO CAMPERS. INCLUDING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SPORTS, GAMES AND SWIMMING, MIXED WITH TRADITIONAL CAMP ACTIVITIES SUCH AS COOK OUTS, CAMP SONGS AND ARTS AND CRAFTS.

    Expenses $273,282 · Revenue $783,328

  • EQUESTRIAN: EQUESTRIAN PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED BOTH TO BUTLER MONTESSORI STUDENTS AS WELL AS OUTSIDE PARTICIPANTS UNDER THE NAME OF "BUTLER EQUESTRIAN" ACTIVITIES RANGE FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF HORSEBACK RIDING, PLEASURE RIDING, DRESSAGE, EQUITATION AND EVENTING.

    Expenses $269,283 · Revenue $149,913

  • ALL OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES

    Revenue $271,698

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • BRIAN COUTS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CORTENOUS HERBERT

    VOLUNTEER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JERRY BEAULIEU

    VOLUNTEER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KENNA BRADFORD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SCOTT CHIDAKEL

    DIRECTOR, CFO

    Total calculated
    $91,700
    From this org
    $91,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SUSAN BAKER

    VOLUNTEER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VIJI SELVAPATHY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLY TRUONG

    DIRECTOR OF LOWER SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RON GARRAFFA

    VOLUNTEER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMY HUGHES

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATASHA SODERBERG

    HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $91,200
    From this org
    $91,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOYCE THOMAS

    VOLUNTEER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
2 July 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202501849349301330

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