Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $10,795,768
- Total expenses
- $12,778,216
- Contributions and grants received
- $4,513,190
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $10,116,498
- Management and general expenses
- $1,796,223
- Fundraising expenses
- $865,495
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $10,116,498
Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Listed in Part VII
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EUGENE P GRAMZA JR
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LISA CEGLIA
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RYLAN O RAWLINS
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
JOHN R YURTCHUK
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RAJIV RANJAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NICOLE R TZETZO
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHELLE A SULLIVAN
CHAIR ELECT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
DAVID P FLYNN
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BARBARA T BAKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CAVETTE A CHAMBERS
DIRECTOR - EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOEL P FEROLETO
DIRECTOR - EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SERGIO P GANGAROSSA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN T GAVIGAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN GINGRICH
DIRECTOR- EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CRAIG A HARRIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SEAN HEIDINGER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRIS KANIA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRANDON SCHULZ-KOLLER
DIRECTOR- EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIAN J KULPA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DENISE LANZ
DIRECTOR - EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
PAUL MILLSTEIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RONALD MORNELLI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN O'SULLIVAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELIZABETH POTOZNIAK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN R SANDERSON
DIRECTOR - EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
CHRIS SCANLON
DIRECTOR - EX-OFFICIO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DONNA M SIWEK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL T ULBRICH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KANISHKA WANNINAYAKA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ABIGAIL L ZABRODSKY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DENISE SCHAEFER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $150,696
- From this org
- $131,518
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $19,178
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $131,518
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,586
- Nontaxable benefits
- $9,592
- Filer's total
- $150,696
-
LISA SMITH
PRESIDENT/CEO
- Total calculated
- $221,781
- From this org
- $188,111
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $33,670
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $188,111
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,600
- Nontaxable benefits
- $26,070
- Filer's total
- $221,781
-
KURT VOLLE
VETERINARIAN
- Total calculated
- $137,393
- From this org
- $106,143
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,250
- 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
- 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
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
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 FOUNDATION INC
501(C)(3) · SUPPORT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO, INC. · NY · controlled entity
Directly controlled by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 10 July 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202501969349301300
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