← ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY.

Totals

Total revenue: $14,059,943
Total expenses: $16,809,299
Contributions and grants received: $12,769,439
Grants paid: $4,337,159
Program services expenses (Part IX): $12,232,766
Management and general expenses: $3,695,162
Fundraising expenses: $881,371
Program service expenses (Part III): $12,232,766

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

TAMI GARRISON

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOHN KISSINGER

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
PEGGY KELSEY

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JON SOHN

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DEREK TYUS

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ROB BERES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARK BERKOFF

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JANETTE BRAVERMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
PRESTON COLE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SUSAN DOYLE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JASON FATHALLAH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SEAN FINNIGAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOE FROHNA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARIA GONZALEZ KNAVEL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARGARET HARRIS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NEZIH HASANOGLU

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JUDY HOLZ STATHAS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EMORY IRELAND

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHRISTINE IRGENS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TODD JONES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARK KASS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOHN KELLERMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DAN KEMPKEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOE KRESL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CAROLINE KRIDER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JENNA KUNDE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DR DEMOND MEANS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KAT MORROW

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KRISTIN OCCHETTI

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JON CROWELL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOE ROCK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHUCK ROEDEL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BARRY SATTELL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RICK SCHMIDT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ROGER SMITH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DAVE STRELITZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TONY STANIAK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JAMES WARD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JODI GIBSON

PRESIDENT AND CEO

Total calculated

$345,468

From this org

$314,077

From related orgs

$0

Other

$31,391

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$278,077

Bonus

$36,000

Other

$0

Deferred

$14,847

Nontaxable benefits

$16,544

Filer's total

$345,468
JASON KOEHLER

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Total calculated

$201,128

From this org

$155,280

From related orgs

$0

Other

$45,848

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$142,280

Bonus

$13,000

Other

$0

Deferred

$7,103

Nontaxable benefits

$38,745

Filer's total

$201,128
JENNIFER MUELLER

CHIEF REVENUE DEVELOPMENT

Total calculated

$231,976

From this org

$182,989

From related orgs

$0

Other

$48,987

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$178,774

Bonus

$4,215

Other

$0

Deferred

$9,851

Nontaxable benefits

$39,136

Filer's total

$231,976
ELIZABETH HELLER

VP - PROGRAMS

Total calculated

$154,865

From this org

$145,977

From related orgs

$0

Other

$8,888

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$142,727

Bonus

$3,250

Other

$0

Deferred

$7,299

Nontaxable benefits

$1,589

Filer's total

$154,865

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 · 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

MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOO

$4,306,049

SUPPORTING THEIR MISSION OF CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION

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.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILW ENDOWMENT TRUST

501(C)(3) · SUPPORT OF ZSM · WI

Directly controlled by NONE

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2025
IRS schema version: 2025v4.2
Source object: 202622369349301092

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