Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $560,250
- Total expenses
- $259,236
- Contributions and grants received
- $401,815
- Grants paid
- $240,000
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $222,009
- Other revenue
- -$63,574
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,104,324
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $6,104,324
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $240,000
- Management and general expenses
- $19,236
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $240,000
Program services were 92.6% 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.
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1c · Fundraising events
$236,103
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$165,712
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3 · Investment income
total $135,912 · excluded $135,912
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $284,809
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $198,712
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $86,097
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $86,097 · excluded $86,097
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$107,697
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$236,103
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$171,271
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$63,574 · excluded -$63,574
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $240,000 · program services $240,000
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11g · Fees: other
total $19,236 · management and general $19,236
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $18,096 · end of year $25,350
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $18,625 · end of year $122,238
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $5,222,898 · end of year $5,905,465
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $49,616 · end of year $51,271
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $4,678,583 · end of year $5,394,434
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $630,652 · end of year $709,890
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE FINANCIAL NEEDS OF ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO, INC. (THE BUFFALO ZOO) AS WELL AS THE FULL TIME DEVOTION TO SEEKING, RECEIVING, HOLDING, MAINTAINING, AND REINVESTING FUNDS ON BEHALF OF BUFFALO ZOO.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO, INC.
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TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES OF THE BUFFALO ZOO.
Expenses $240,000 · Grants $240,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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John R SandersonJOHN R SANDERSON
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Robert D YalowichROBERT D YALOWICH
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Paulette M CrookePAULETTE M CROOKE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jonathan A DandesJONATHAN A DANDES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Robert M Greene EsqROBERT M GREENE ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mark PhillipsMARK PHILLIPS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ryan O RawlinsRYAN O RAWLINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
James Smyton EsqJAMES SMYTON ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michelle A SullivanMICHELLE A SULLIVAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Denise K SchaeferDENISE K SCHAEFER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $162,185
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $142,638
- Other
- $19,547
- Hours/week
- 4 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $142,638 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $10,358 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $9,189 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $162,185 related
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Lisa SmithLISA SMITH
PRESIDENT & CEO
- Total calculated
- $253,221
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $212,825
- Other
- $40,396
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $207,825 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $5,000 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $8,608 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $31,788 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $253,221 related
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.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 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
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
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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC
$240,000
GENERAL SUPPORT
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC
501(C)(3) · OPERATES THE BUFFALO ZOO · NY
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 14 July 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.2
- Source object
- 202601969349301415
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