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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,289,638
Total expenses
$2,958,777
Contributions and grants received
$395,689
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$2,916,832
Investment income
$136,173
Other revenue
-$159,056
Total assets, end of year
$6,082,695
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,378,426
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$4,704,269
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,523,749
Management and general expenses
$300,675
Fundraising expenses
$134,353
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,523,749

Program services were 85.3% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $395,689

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MEMBERSHIP DUES

    total $2,683,040 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: ANIMAL & EXHIBIT INCOME

    total $233,792 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $133,502 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $134,980

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

    securities $132,309

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $2,671

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $2,671 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $2,671

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $201,540

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $360,596

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$159,056 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$159,056

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $152,544 · program services $94,086 · management and general $25,943 · fundraising $32,515

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $388,873 · program services $239,848 · management and general $66,135 · fundraising $82,890

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $40,476 · program services $24,964 · management and general $6,884 · fundraising $8,628

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $48,417 · program services $29,863 · management and general $8,234 · fundraising $10,320

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $44,192 · program services $0 · management and general $44,192 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $20,598 · program services $0 · management and general $20,598 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $42,971 · program services $0 · management and general $42,971 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $17,070 · program services $0 · management and general $17,070 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $216,219 · program services $216,219 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $70,387 · program services $70,387 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $14,685 · program services $4,000 · management and general $10,685 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $44,869 · program services $0 · management and general $44,869 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $48,539 · program services $48,539 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,948 · program services $0 · management and general $9,948 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: EXHIBIT MAINTENANCE

    total $1,661,914 · program services $1,661,914 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONSERVATION AND ENRICHMENT

    total $133,929 · program services $133,929 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $154 · program services $0 · management and general $154 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $2,992 · program services $0 · management and general $2,992 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,265,761 · end of year $1,315,711

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,193,962 · end of year $2,201,092

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $2,135,855 · end of year $2,565,892

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $40,483 · end of year $41,362

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,349,751 · end of year $1,337,064

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,982,844 · end of year $4,436,224

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $222,500 · end of year $268,045

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PROMOTE ESSEX COUNTY TURTLE BACK ZOO THROUGH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.

  • TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ESSEX COUNTY TURTLE BACK ZOO, A FACILITY OF THE ESSEX COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS TO STIMULATE THE PUBLICS INTEREST IN THE GROWTH, IMPROVEMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT OF ESSEX COUNTY TURTLE BACK ZOO THROUGH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WITH AN EMPHASIS ON NATURAL CONSERVATION OF ALL SPECIES OF ANIMALS.

    Expenses $2,523,749

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Adam Olszowy

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kerri Berson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Young

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marion O'Neill

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darlene Panzitta

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Holland

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randall Haase

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Howard Matalon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Breana Grosz

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Shafer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Travia

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Kerins

    EXECUTIVE DIR.

    Total calculated
    $152,545
    From this org
    $152,545
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,545
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $152,545

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
  • 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
11 June 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202601759349301210

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