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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$8,484,895
Total expenses
$8,991,857
Contributions and grants received
$8,015,467
Grants paid
$5,643,336
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,086,734
Management and general expenses
$949,976
Fundraising expenses
$1,955,147
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,086,734

Program services were 67.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • BLAKE GRAMS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SUZANNE GAPPA

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHET ELLINGSON

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MARK LARSEN

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • AIMEE DAYHOFF

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHARLENE JUNDT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DALE KIVIMAKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOUG FULTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELLIE CROSBY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANE PIRTLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEAN TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER SHOMENTA MAKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOE RAVENS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOUIS DOTH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY NORDMEYER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PEGGY BURNET

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHIL GAARDER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMIE FLAWS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $174,872
    From this org
    $161,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,334
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,538
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,334
    Filer's total
    $174,872

  • RYAN SWEENEY

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $104,128
    From this org
    $92,688
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,440
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOHN FRAWLEY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $156,895
    From this org
    $79,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $77,500
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $75,000
    Other
    $4,395
    Deferred
    $77,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $156,895

  • ELISABETH COMEAUX

    DIR CORPORATE & FOUNDATION RELATIONS

    Total calculated
    $124,333
    From this org
    $101,434
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,899
    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 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 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
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 4B
A CONTRIBUTION OF $55,000 WAS MADE TO JOHN FRAWLEY'S 457(F) DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. NO AMOUNTS WERE VESTED DURING 2024. NO AMOUNTS WERE PAID OUT DURING 2024.
PART I, LINE 7
A BONUS WAS PAID TO THE PRESIDENT DURING FISCAL 2024. BONUS WAS DISCRETIONARY AND DETERMINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
12 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202541349349305489

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