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JOHN COOPER SCHOOL

EIN 76-0150423 THE WOODLANDS, TX

Revenue 2024
$49,159,894
Expenses 2024
$49,400,247

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
1 JOHN COOPER DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See Schedule OThe mission of The John Cooper School is to provide a challenging education in a caring environment to a diverse group of select students, enabling them to become critical & creative thinkers, effective communicators, responsible citizens and leaders, and lifetime learners.

Activities or mission (Part I)

An independent, co-educational primary and secondary school located in The Woodlands, TX.

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

    Expenses $44,452,717 · Grants $2,862,528 · Revenue $45,309,495

As filed on the 2024 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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Beth Griffith

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Cole Pate

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lindsey Cooksen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brad McGovern

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ralph Alexander

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Barnwell

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Becky Bayless

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bryan Brown

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jennie Hughes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cliff Justice

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Petrauskas

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carlos Ramirez

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Rock

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jennifer Ruckman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pat Shea

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ally Seder

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Angie Signorelli

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephen Popp

    Head of School

    Total calculated
    $629,894
    From this org
    $561,597
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $68,297
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $412,181
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $149,416
    Deferred
    $46,196
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,101
    Filer's total
    $629,894

  • Chris Patterson

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $337,057
    From this org
    $288,712
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,345
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $288,712
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $26,188
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,157
    Filer's total
    $337,057

  • Melvin Williams Jr

    Associate Head of School

    Total calculated
    $296,865
    From this org
    $248,281
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,584
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $248,281
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $33,916
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,668
    Filer's total
    $296,865

  • Christen Wilson

    Director of Advancement

    Total calculated
    $236,775
    From this org
    $204,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,775
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $204,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $29,731
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,044
    Filer's total
    $236,775

  • John Hoye

    Director of Athletics

    Total calculated
    $212,727
    From this org
    $171,725
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,002
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,725
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $26,681
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,321
    Filer's total
    $212,727

  • Elisa Inman

    Head of Middle School

    Total calculated
    $201,333
    From this org
    $162,611
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,722
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,611
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,820
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,902
    Filer's total
    $201,333

  • Laura Schroeder

    Director of College Counseling

    Total calculated
    $200,360
    From this org
    $162,183
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,177
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,183
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,382
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,795
    Filer's total
    $200,360

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. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $49,159,894
    Expenses
    $49,400,247
    Contributions
    $1,636,587
    Grants paid
    $2,862,528
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,298,335
    Expenses
    $44,153,651
    Contributions
    $3,775,876
    Grants paid
    $2,527,557
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $47,177,052
    Expenses
    $41,710,670
    Contributions
    $5,321,385
    Grants paid
    $2,150,716

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,380,579
    Expenses
    $38,051,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,804,128

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,845,324
    Expenses
    $36,312,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,778,663

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,760,372
    Expenses
    $35,467,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,900,214

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,657,278
    Expenses
    $34,928,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,091,008

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,790,624
    Expenses
    $33,834,006
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,479,955

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,528,240
    Expenses
    $32,541,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,959,372

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,850,503
    Expenses
    $28,282,602
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,462,963

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,743,801
    Expenses
    $27,131,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,747,424

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,748,796
    Expenses
    $24,524,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,338,158

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $21,634,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,164,107

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.