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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC

EIN 55-0526930 SILVER SPRING, MD

Revenue 2024
$20,870,405
Expenses 2024
$18,320,152

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D030
Classification
8200
Street
8403 COLESVILLE RD STE 710

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).

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.

  • DENISE VERRET

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • CHRISTOPHER DOLD

    CHAIR-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • DWIGHT SCOTT

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • LISA NEW

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • KYLE BURKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • BECKY DEWITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ROGER GERMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHARLES HOPPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CARRIE LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LUIS PADILLA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LISA PETERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHRIS PFEFFERKORN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DOUGLAS PIEKARZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ERIC ROSE

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 9/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MEGAN ROSS

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 9/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DANIEL M ASHE

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $574,000
    From this org
    $537,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,075
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $537,925
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $33,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,075
    Filer's total
    $574,000

  • CRAIG M HOOVER

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $285,500
    From this org
    $258,436
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,064
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $231,701
    Bonus
    $26,735
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $27,064
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $285,500

  • PHILIP F WAGNER

    SR. VP OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $261,200
    From this org
    $205,906
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,294
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,664
    Bonus
    $22,242
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $21,436
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,858
    Filer's total
    $261,200

  • JOHN C KEENEY JR

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $247,698
    From this org
    $225,953
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,745
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,926
    Bonus
    $12,227
    Other
    $1,800
    Deferred
    $21,745
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $247,698

  • MELISSA A HOWERTON

    SR. VP OF MEMBER SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $243,115
    From this org
    $194,944
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,171
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,200
    Bonus
    $23,744
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $21,587
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,584
    Filer's total
    $243,115

  • CANDICE DORSEY

    SR. VP CONSERVATION & MGMT

    Total calculated
    $237,516
    From this org
    $196,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,266
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,506
    Bonus
    $23,744
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,598
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,668
    Filer's total
    $237,516

  • SARA WALKER

    SR. ADVISOR ON WILDLIFE TR

    Total calculated
    $205,467
    From this org
    $186,094
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,373
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,009
    Bonus
    $19,085
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,746
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,627
    Filer's total
    $205,467

  • SARAH E MILBERG

    SR. VP OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $148,961
    From this org
    $139,982
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,979
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $20,870,405
    Expenses
    $18,320,152
    Contributions
    $8,444,373
    Grants paid
    $7,326,357
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,318,166
    Expenses
    $12,145,369
    Contributions
    $2,382,069
    Grants paid
    $1,567,893
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $31,309,593
    Expenses
    $28,739,293
    Contributions
    $21,642,564
    Grants paid
    $18,987,961

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.