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St John's School

St John's School (Texas) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,889,004 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,720,820). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$117M
Funders on record
145
Grants received
$56M
Net assets
$285M
102/145 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What St John's School does

Mission

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting standards in the development of individual, spiritual, ethical, intellectual, social and physical growth. While the means to achieve that purpose may change, it remains the basic mission of the School.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. St. John's School provides 1,422 talented students in grades K-12 with a rigorous college preparatory curriculum and a wealth of enrichment opportunities carefully designed to prepare students for lives of leadership, service, and personal fulfillment.The School seeks to develop the whole person in preparation for a lifetime of personal fulfillment and contribution to society. In particular, it is dedicated to the enhancement and the expansion of future leadership for Houston and the country. The School offers talented, motivated and energetic students a genuine challenge for academic accomplishment and development of a sense of self-worth and personal responsibility. The School in turn holds itself responsible for providing that challenge.

    $51,719,839 spentof which $4,485,564 as grants$52,197,630 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $51,719,839.

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 ($51M) Expenses 100 ($52M) Net assets 100 ($179M)2018 Revenue 105 ($53M) Expenses 105 ($55M) Net assets 100 ($179M)2019 Revenue 110 ($56M) Expenses 108 ($56M) Net assets 100 ($178M)2020 Revenue 115 ($59M) Expenses 104 ($54M) Net assets 100 ($179M)2021 Revenue 105 ($54M) Expenses 114 ($59M) Net assets 107 ($190M)2022 Revenue 122 ($62M) Expenses 116 ($60M) Net assets 98 ($175M)2023 Revenue 130 ($66M) Expenses 114 ($59M) Net assets 106 ($189M)2024 Revenue 173 ($88M) Expenses 114 ($59M) Net assets 126 ($224M)2025 Revenue 230 ($117M) Expenses 119 ($62M) Net assets 160 ($285M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (119)Net assets (160)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $322M to $423M (+31%).

$329M
$325M
$322M
$423M
$433M
$417M
$334M
$366M
$427M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.1M
’17
−$1.6M
’18
−$56k
’19
$4.6M
’20
−$5.8M
’21
$1.6M
’22
$7.0M
’23
$29M
’24
$55M
’25
18
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.

Chief executive

Daniel J Alig

Head of School/CEO

Board chair

William Gentry Lee Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed273332353334353435
Joined·+8+5+6+3+8+7+9+7
No longer listed·263576106
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $3.3M.

25 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of St John's School’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 funders by total. 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

St John's School has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 St John's School.

19%
largest funder
56%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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.

How long its funders stay

58% of St John's School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

97% of St John's School's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
MA
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
TN
NC
OK
LA
GA
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding St John's School receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142k on record.

Federal$142k
grants $0contracts $142k
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18
23
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$142k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like St John's School

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds St John's School?
St John's School (Texas) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,889,004 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,720,820). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does St John's School have?
IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $55,889,004 in grants to St John's School, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of St John's School?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,720,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like St John's School find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 145 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing