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BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC

EIN 42-1171821 DES MOINES, IA

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Revenue 2024
$11,913,239
Expenses 2024
$10,590,247

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D115
Classification
1000
Street
7401 SW 9TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO INSPIRE AN APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, AND RECREATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE AN APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, AND RECREATION.THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE A) TO MANAGE THE BLANK PARK ZOO; B) TO SOLICIT, COLLECT AND PROVIDE FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS OF THE ZOO; C) TO PROMOTE INTEREST AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC CONCERNING THE ZOO; D) TO IMPLEMENT AND ASSIST IN THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGICAL NATURAL HISTORY, ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND THE SCIENCE ALLIED THEREWITH; E) TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ZOO.

  • THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE A) TO MANAGE THE BLANK PARK ZOO; B) TO SOLICIT, COLLECT AND PROVIDE FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS OF THE ZOO; C) TO PROMOTE INTEREST AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC CONCERNING THE ZOO; D) TO IMPLEMENT AND ASSIST IN THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGICAL NATURAL HISTORY, ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND THE SCIENCE ALLIED THEREWITH; E) TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ZOO.

    Expenses $8,646,804 · Grants $12,500 · Revenue $6,498,014

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rochelle Burnett

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Schwarz

    1ST VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Gustafson

    2ND VICE CHAIRPERSON & SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Kennedy

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pat Henson

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE / BOARD RECORDER THROUGH 1/1/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10.5

  • Jim Hagenbucher

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Karch

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Viggers

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Crookham-Johnson

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Stevenson

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peg Armstrong-Gustafson

    DIRECTOR THROUGH 3/31/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Fryar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Toby Joseph

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ben Page

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Brick

    DIRECTOR THROUGH 3/31/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Renner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lou Siplot

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Clint Pursley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carl Voss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tina Hoffman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Vince Ward

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jay Byers

    DIRECTOR THROUGH 3/31/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lauren Doll-Sheeder

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dan Grooms

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mary Radia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $11,913,239
    Expenses
    $10,590,247
    Contributions
    $5,057,013
    Grants paid
    $12,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,564,625
    Expenses
    $10,218,751
    Contributions
    $5,847,568
    Grants paid
    $127,545
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,325,700
    Expenses
    $9,580,229
    Contributions
    $5,306,419
    Grants paid
    $57,461

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,756,051
    Expenses
    $7,666,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,987,936

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,389,454
    Expenses
    $6,493,297
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,956,722

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,006,593
    Expenses
    $7,637,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,030,319

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,957,517
    Expenses
    $7,591,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,495,587

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,610,298
    Expenses
    $7,017,106
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,508,914

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.