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← SENECA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by SENECA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$5,375,593
Total expenses
$4,462,454
Contributions and grants received
$2,806,140
Grants paid
$282,720
Program service revenue
$2,174,371
Investment income
$161,886
Other revenue
$233,196
Total assets, end of year
$6,678,001
Total liabilities, end of year
$801,891
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,876,110
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,237,751
Management and general expenses
$1,178,681
Fundraising expenses
$1,046,022
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,237,751

Program services were 50.1% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $6,755

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $194,525

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,604,860

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $459,229

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MEMBERSHIP

    total $1,352,756 · related or exempt $1,352,756

  • 2b · Program service revenue: EDUCATION & OTHER

    total $821,615 · related or exempt $821,615

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $161,948 · excluded $161,948

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $62

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$62

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$62 · excluded -$62

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $565,836

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $194,525

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $332,640

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $233,196 · excluded $233,196

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $282,720 · program services $282,720

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $42,452 · program services $42,452

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $321,879 · program services $141,627 · management and general $148,064 · fundraising $32,188

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,719,222 · program services $964,803 · management and general $342,889 · fundraising $411,530

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $37,657 · program services $16,020 · management and general $11,080 · fundraising $10,557

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $204,936 · program services $114,404 · management and general $32,038 · fundraising $58,494

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $163,266 · program services $90,879 · management and general $38,745 · fundraising $33,642

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $2,750 · management and general $2,750

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $27,250 · management and general $27,250

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $17,435 · fundraising $17,435

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $604,715 · program services $49,495 · management and general $135,396 · fundraising $419,824

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $165,847 · program services $794 · management and general $165,053

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $272,952 · program services $66,070 · management and general $86,944 · fundraising $119,938

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $275,880 · program services $140,725 · management and general $79,901 · fundraising $55,254

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $279,269 · program services $137,413 · management and general $65,254 · fundraising $76,602

  • 17 · Travel

    total $47,166 · program services $32,825 · management and general $10,285 · fundraising $4,056

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $10,294 · program services $3,346 · management and general $3,871 · fundraising $3,077

  • 20 · Interest

    total $74,114 · program services $48,022 · management and general $4,328 · fundraising $21,764

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $50,865 · program services $42,949 · management and general $5,268 · fundraising $2,648

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $23,646 · program services $11,626 · management and general $7,513 · fundraising $4,507

  • 24a · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT AND RENTALS

    total $73,256 · program services $4,281 · management and general $799 · fundraising $68,176

  • 24b · Other expenses: MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS

    total $27,817 · program services $18,733 · management and general $4,136 · fundraising $4,948

  • 24c · Other expenses: SPECIAL EVENTS

    total $21,753 · program services $272 · management and general $82 · fundraising $21,399

  • 24d · Other expenses: DUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $12,679 · program services $5,325 · management and general $4,543 · fundraising $2,811

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total -$297,366 · program services $22,970 · management and general $2,492 · fundraising -$322,828

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $529,703 · end of year $506,760

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,056,799 · end of year $1,684,870

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $34,332 · end of year $56,592

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $29,458 · end of year $75,793

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $6,497 · end of year $16,656

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $42,284 · end of year $40,927

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $430,417

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $320,605

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $128,067 · end of year $109,812

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $2,461,202 · end of year $3,886,259

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $300,332

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $208,446 · end of year $196,142

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $139,976 · end of year $135,123

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $116,273 · end of year $470,626

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,049,450 · end of year $4,607,707

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $774,197 · end of year $1,268,403

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CHARTERED AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION BY NEW YORK STATE IN 1957, THE SOCIETY PROVIDES EDUCATION AND PROGRAMMING & CONSERVATION, FUNDRAISING, SPECIAL EVENTS, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING, AND MEMBERSHIP TO MONROE COUNTY'S SENECA PARK ZOO. WE ALSO AID IN THE DESIGN AND BUILDING OF NEW EXHIBITS AND HAVE, OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN $21 MILLION TO THIS EFFORT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SENECA PARK ZOO INSPIRES OUR COMMUNITY TO CONNECT, CARE FOR, AND CONSERVE WILDLIFE AND WILD PLACES.

  • EDUCATION AND PROGRAMMING CONSERVATION ACTION- EDUCATION 9,427 PARTICIPANTS LEARNED TO ACT FOR WILDLIFE AND WILD PLACES THROUGH 515 EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDING ONSITE SCHOOL PROGRAMS, ZOOCAMPS, SCOUTS AND KINDERZOO. WE ALSO HAD 121 TEEN VOLUNTEERS LOGGING OVER 5900 HOURS WITH 44,970 GUEST INTERACTIONS. PROGRAMMING & CONSERVATION ACTION DELIVERED 651 PROGRAMS FOR 41,980 PARTICIPANTS. THE PROGRAMS INCLUDE URBAN ECOLOGY, THE NATURE CART, COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, THE ZOOMOBILE AND THE BUTTERFLY BELTWAY PROJECT.

    Expenses $1,253,309 · Grants $5,500 · Revenue $594,923

  • MEMBERSHIPWE HAD THE SUPPORT OF OVER 14,000 MEMBERS IN 2024 INCLUDING 1,289 HEAD OF THE HERD HOUSEHOLDS WHO HAVE MAINTAINED THEIR MEMBERSHIP FOR 10 OR MORE CONSECUTIVE YEARS. MEMBER ATTENDANCE WAS OVER 115,000 AND 78% OF MEMBERS WENT DIGITAL WITH THEIR MEMBER CARDS HELPING US DRAMATICALLY REDUCE PAPER CONSUMPTION AND PRINTING COSTS.

    Expenses $849,963 · Grants $277,220 · Revenue $1,412,859

  • Expenses $134,479

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Gavin Brownlie Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Stern

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Allen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leonard Bayer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Trisha Butera

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Degrave

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maureen Dobies

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shelly Doran

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzanne Hunt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Hasman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin Nowack

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Debby Wilson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barbara Kelley

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christine Osborne

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jay Weaver

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Matteo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Myers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Meredith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Luis Burgos

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tarek Eldaher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pamela O'Connor-Chapman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Brown

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rose Mary Villarrubia-Izzo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Wilks

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Hin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katrina Busch

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jozef Kuzmkowski

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Lally

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • W Jack Plants

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pamela Reed Sanchez

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $172,233
    From this org
    $162,180
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,053
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,180
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,053
    Filer's total
    $172,233
  • Sharon Peterson

    VICE PRESIDENT & CFO

    Total calculated
    $149,646
    From this org
    $130,773
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,873
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 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 · 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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REVIEWS COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT AND CEO.

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

  • COUNTY OF MONROE PARKS DEPARTMENT

    $277,220

    REVENUE & EXPERIENCE SHARE FOR SENECA PARK ZOO

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
29 September 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202502769349300115

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