LIVING PLANET INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2100

Street

12033 S LONE PEAK PKWY

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

• AQUARIUM PROGRAM LOVELAND LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM (LLPA) IS AN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS (AZA)-ACCREDITED INSTITUTION WITH A MISSION TO INSPIRE GUESTS TO EXPLORE, DISCOVER, AND LEARN ABOUT EARTH'S DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS. THE AQUARIUM FEATURES SIX PRIMARY HABITAT GALLERIES AND AN OUTDOOR EDUCATION PLAZA THAT SUPPORTS YEAR-ROUND ENGAGEMENT AND INTERPRETATION. GALLERIES SPAN FROM UTAH NATIVE FAUNA, TO SOUTH AMERICA, TO THE OCEAN, TO ASIAN CLOUD FORESTS, AND BEYOND. IN 2024, LLPA WELCOMED 1,100,889 GUESTS AND EXPANDED ITS ANIMAL COLLECTION THROUGH SUCCESSFUL HATCHINGS AND ACQUISITIONS, INCLUDING TWO GENTOO PENGUIN CHICKS, AN ASIAN SMALL-CLAWED OTTER, HERMANN'S TORTOISES, A HARRIS HAWK, AND CABEZON FISH. THE ANIMAL CARE TEAM CONTRIBUTED TO GLOBAL CONSERVATION EFFORTS BY RAISING ATLANTIC LUMPFISH FROM EGGS TO ADULTHOOD, CARING FOR ENDANGERED COLORADO PIKEMINNOW, SUPPORTING MOTUS MIGRATORY BIRD TRACKING, AND RAISING AND RELEASING 24 WESTERN TOADS. LLPA ALSO JOINED THE AZA SAVING ANIMALS FROM EXTINCTION (SAFE) SHARK AND RAY PROGRAM IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER AZA INSTITUTIONS. A TOTAL OF 207 VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTED 12,330 SERVICE HOURS ACROSS ANIMAL CARE, DIVING, AND EDUCATION SUPPORT.

  Expenses $15,185,572 · Revenue $16,130,955

• EDUCATION PROGRAM IN 2024, LLPA CONTINUED TO EXPAND ITS STEAM EDUCATION PROGRAMS STATEWIDE. ON-SITE PROGRAMS SERVED 78,604 STUDENTS, INCLUDING 18,729 FROM TITLE I SCHOOLS. THE AQUARIUM'S OUTREACH TEAM DELIVERED UTAH STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION-ALIGNED LESSONS IN 620 CLASSROOMS, REACHING 79,731 STUDENTS ACROSS UTAH, INCLUDING EVERY 4TH-GRADE CLASS AND SELECT 2ND AND 6TH-GRADE CLASSES. NEARLY 3,000 STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN SUMMER AND SCHOOL-BREAK CAMPS, WITH 115 SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDED TO ENSURE ACCESS FOR STUDENTS IN NEED. HOMESCHOOL DAYS OFFERED NO-COST ADMISSION AND SUPPLEMENTAL LEARNING FOR REGISTERED HOMESCHOOL PROVIDERS. LLPA ALSO FORMALIZED MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING WITH UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY AND UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY TO ESTABLISH UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK IN FRESHWATER AND MARINE ECOLOGY ONSITE, CREATING IN-STATE PATHWAYS TO MARINE SCIENCE CAREERS AND SUPPORTING COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN AQUATIC CONSERVATION. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT REACHED OVER 900,000 GUESTS THROUGH DAILY INTERPRETATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS, INCLUDING WORLD OCEANS WEEK, SHARK WEEK, MEDITATION & YOGA EVENTS, A U2 TRIBUTE CONCERT, AND THE INAUGURAL LANTERN FESTIVAL. REVENUE FROM THESE EVENTS DIRECTLY SUPPORTED EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, AND ANIMAL CARE.

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

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $26,540,825

  Expenses

  $18,030,765

  Contributions

  $7,153,855

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $23,948,785

  Expenses

  $16,236,706

  Contributions

  $6,246,591

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $26,055,979

  Expenses

  $15,348,180

  Contributions

  $9,853,391

  Grants paid

  $0

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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,553,402

  Expenses

  $12,809,136

  Assets (EOY)

  $60,500,987

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,822,900

  Expenses

  $11,325,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,372,437

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,175,964

  Expenses

  $12,366,855

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,478,374

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $16,448,625

  Expenses

  $11,709,844

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,007,435

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,040,713

  Expenses

  $10,918,935

  Assets (EOY)

  $32,993,423

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• PI FOUNDATION INC

  $250,000

  2023 · SUPPORT CHARITY ORG

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $109,604

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $105,652

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC

  $83,546

  2022 · ENDANGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $67,348

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• HANSEN AQUARIUM SUPPORT FOUNDATION

  $22,500

  2024 · TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE LOVELAND LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM.

• HANSEN AQUARIUM SUPPORT FOUNDATION

  $22,500

  2023 · TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE LOVELAND LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM.

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $22,130

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $9,502

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $6,698

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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.

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