Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by CENTER FOR NATURE BASED LEARNING.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $0
- Total expenses
- $630,612
- Contributions and grants received
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $9,114,133
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,933,558
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $6,180,575
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $404,721
- Management and general expenses
- $225,891
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $404,721
Program services were 64.2% 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.
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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20 · Interest
total $225,891 · management and general $225,891
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $404,721 · program services $404,721
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $38,430 · end of year $1,357
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$12,169,965
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$3,057,189
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $9,517,496 · end of year $9,112,776
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $3,155,669 · end of year $2,933,558
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $6,400,257 · end of year $6,180,575
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO OWN A BUILDING AND RELATED MORTGAGE DEBT WHICH WILL BE UTILIZED BY THE SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (EIN 74-1323695) TO CONDUCT NATURE BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL AGED CHILDREN. THE BUILDING IS LOCATED ON PROPERTY CONTIGUOUS TO, AND IMMEDIATELY WEST OF, THE SAN ANTONIO ZOO.
Activities or mission (Part I)
PROVIDE A FACILITY FOR USE BY THE SA ZOO FOR A NATURE BASED PRESCHOOL PROGRAM.
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PROVIDE A FACILITY TO BE UTILIZED BY THE SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO CONDUCT NATURE BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL AGED CHILDREN. THE BUIDLING IS LOCATED ON PROPERTY CONTIGUOUS TO, AND IMMEDIATELY WEST OF, THE SAN ANTONIO ZOO.
Expenses $404,721
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Frank Z RuttenbergFRANK Z RUTTENBERG
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1.25 related
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William A FreedWILLIAM A FREED
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
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Mary R BarrettMARY R BARRETT
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
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Sarah Stumberg WalkerSARAH STUMBERG WALKER
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
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Timothy MorrowTIMOTHY MORROW
CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $507,001
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $498,805
- Other
- $8,196
- Hours/week
- 2.5 + 42.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $498,129 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $400 related
- Other
- $0 + $276 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $1,181 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $7,015 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $507,001 related
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Jenny FriendJENNY FRIEND
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $225,797
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $202,084
- Other
- $23,713
- Hours/week
- 2.5 + 42.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $201,904 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $180 related
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $23,713 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $225,797 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
None.
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- PART I, LINE 3
- THE ORGANIZATION RELIES ON ITS RELATED ORGANIZATION TO ESTABLISH THE COMPENSATION OF THE OFFICERS, WHICH INCLUDES A COMPENSATION COMMITTEE, WRITTEN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, AND APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OR COMPENSATION COMMITTEE.
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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SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
501(C)(3) · TO FOSTER APPRECIATION AND CONCERN FOR ALL LIVING THINGS THRU ITS ZOO · TX
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501(C)(2) · OWN BUILDING TO BE USED BY THE SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY · TX
Directly controlled by SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 13 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523189349302957
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