Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $50,519,973
- Total expenses
- $44,259,231
- Contributions and grants received
- $25,583,104
- Grants paid
- $500,386
- Program service revenue
- $15,322,081
- Investment income
- $8,154,354
- Other revenue
- $1,460,434
- Total assets, end of year
- $253,968,470
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $57,183,327
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $196,785,143
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $38,488,845
- Management and general expenses
- $2,546,492
- Fundraising expenses
- $3,223,894
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $38,488,845
Program services were 87.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Listed in Part VII
-
MEGAN ROSS
PRESIDENT/CEO
- Total calculated
- $539,651
- From this org
- $500,929
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $38,722
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $450,929
- Bonus
- $50,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $22,810
- Nontaxable benefits
- $15,912
- Filer's total
- $539,651
-
FRANCESCA M EDWARDSON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TRACEY E BENFORD
VICE CHAIR OF FINANCE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHARLES A BARONE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
IAN RADOMSKI
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HIMANI ASHLEMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BUCK BETTEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID P BOLGER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL COLLINS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RONALD DENARD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MISSY DOLSKI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIAN EGWELE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
POLLY ELDRINGHOFF
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN R ETTELSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TAREK FADEL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RICHARD FEITLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DENISE STEFAN GINASCOL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LUIS GUTIERREZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EDWARD C HAFFNER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID HEYMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BARBARA A HIGGINS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROGER G HILL II
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN M HOLMES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
J THOMAS HURVIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
OSCAR JOHNSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARCIA S KAMINSKY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KAREN STONE KAPLAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELIZABETH A KARLSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BARBARA MALOTT KIZZIAH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NEIL KAWASHIMA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KANDACE LENTI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GREG LEOS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GAYLE LITTLETON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN MCLINDEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELISABETH C MEEKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RANDALL E MEHRBERG
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELIZABETH A MIHAS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JASON MILLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LEE T MOORE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
C JOHN MOSTOFI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID L NICHOLS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ADAM NORDIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN OXTOBY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRENDA PALMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GREGORY Y PEARLMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SCOT PEPPER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RICHARD POULTON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MAYARI PRITZKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KELLY POWERS BARIA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN L REGENSTEIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MYRA REILLY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN H RODI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SHANNON SCHUYLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN SHERMAN DVM
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SHARON SZAFRANSKI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
THOMAS F WALKER JR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
K JAY WEAVER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JARED WHITE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SHARON ZACKFIA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BETSY ZIEGLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
CHRISTINE TIERNEY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
LYNN JEKKALS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
RON MALLICOAT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
SHARIF WALKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
TRACY BROWN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
RENA SOLANO
CFO
- Total calculated
- $332,861
- From this org
- $299,972
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $32,889
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $269,972
- Bonus
- $30,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $16,852
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,037
- Filer's total
- $332,861
-
GINEVRA RANNEY
VP OF DEVELOPMENT
- Total calculated
- $291,875
- From this org
- $273,468
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,407
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $260,468
- Bonus
- $13,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $2,246
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,161
- Filer's total
- $291,875
-
BRENDAN DALEY
VP OF OPERATIONS
- Total calculated
- $202,874
- From this org
- $176,860
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $26,014
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $174,360
- Bonus
- $2,500
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,882
- Nontaxable benefits
- $15,132
- Filer's total
- $202,874
-
MAUREEN LEAHY
VP OF ANIMAL CARE AND HORTICULTURE
- Total calculated
- $197,180
- From this org
- $174,519
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,661
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $162,519
- Bonus
- $12,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,891
- Nontaxable benefits
- $12,770
- Filer's total
- $197,180
-
DANA MURPHY
VP OF LEARNING
- Total calculated
- $178,459
- From this org
- $167,348
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,111
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $159,848
- Bonus
- $7,500
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,603
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,508
- Filer's total
- $178,459
-
KATIE CRONIN
DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL WELFARE
- Total calculated
- $176,255
- From this org
- $159,376
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,879
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $91,999
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $67,377
- Deferred
- $5,938
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,941
- Filer's total
- $176,255
-
KEVIN BELL
PRESIDENT EMERITUS / LIFE TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $158,024
- From this org
- $158,024
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $158,024
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $158,024
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
- 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 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
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 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 1A
- SOCIAL CLUB DUES FOR THE PRESIDENT/CEO, MEGAN ROSS, ARE PAID FOR BY THE SOCIETY. SINCE THE MAJORITY OF THE CLUB USE IS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP AND RELATED ASSESSMENTS WILL BE PAID IN FULL BY THE SOCIETY AND ARE NOT TREATED AS TAXABLE COMPENSATION.
- PART I, LINE 4B
- THE PRESIDENT EMERITUS/LIFE TRUSTEE PARTICIPATED IN A NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (457F - NORTHERN TRUST). THE AMOUNT RECEIVED IN FY25 WAS $100,000 AND PREVIOUSLY ACCRUED AS OF FY23. AN ADDITIONAL ACCRUED VESTED 457F BENEFIT OF $100,000 WILL BE PAID OVER THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR FY26, WHICH HAVE ALSO BEEN PREVIOUSLY ACCRUED AS OF FY23. THE DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL WELFARE PARTICIPATED IN A SEPARATE NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. THE 457F WAS FUNDED AND PAID IN FULL DURING FY25.
- PART I, LINE 7
- THE BOARD APPROVED A BONUS TO SELECT STAFF BASED ON PERFORMANCE AND THE FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE ORGANIZATION.
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
-
$48,774
CONSERVATION
-
$37,830
CONSERVATION
-
$33,827
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
-
$30,959
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
-
CONSERVATION
-
CONSERVATION
-
$25,924
CONSERVATION
-
$24,925
CONSERVATION
-
FUNDACION JOSE A BALESEIRO INC
$17,930
CONSERVATION
-
$16,650
CONSERVATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 23 January 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202620309349301702
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