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← ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$550,697
Total expenses
$238,180
Contributions and grants received
$347,954
Grants paid
$220,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$226,419
Other revenue
-$23,676
Total assets, end of year
$5,309,235
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,309,235
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$220,000
Management and general expenses
$18,180
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$220,000

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • JOHN R SANDERSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ROBERT D YALOWICH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAULETTE M CROOKE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN A DANDES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT M GREENE ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK PHILLIPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN O RAWLINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JAMES SMYTON ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE A SULLIVAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DENISE K SCHAEFER

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $150,697
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $131,518
    Other
    $19,179
    Hours/week
    4 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $131,518 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $9,587 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $9,592 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $150,697 related

  • LISA SMITH

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $221,781
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $188,111
    Other
    $33,670
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $188,111 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,600 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,070 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $221,781 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

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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
8 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202501899349300130

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