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SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY

EIN 36-2167918 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$101,974,802
Expenses 2024
$72,794,544

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D500
Classification
2000
Street
1200 S LAKE SHORE DR

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.

  • BRIDGET COUGHLIN PHD

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $966,423
    From this org
    $874,176
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $92,247
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $612,134
    Bonus
    $237,800
    Other
    $24,242
    Deferred
    $70,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,847
    Filer's total
    $966,423

  • David J Koo

    Chairman of Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alex Singla

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anders Gustafsson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Nocella

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna M Livingston

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brent Gledhill

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian A Kenney

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cara Pan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles Smith

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Foulkes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David L Epstein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dominic Curcio

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Hartigan Connelly

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen L O'Connor

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ginevra Reed Ralph

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • H John Gilbertson Jr

    Trustee - Part-Year

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane L Warner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Wright

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerry Krulewitch

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John D Fumagalli

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Hesselmann

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Holmes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph S Braik

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joyce St Clair

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — 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
    $101,974,802
    Expenses
    $72,794,544
    Contributions
    $30,332,596
    Grants paid
    $524,101
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $92,974,657
    Expenses
    $66,994,472
    Contributions
    $26,650,772
    Grants paid
    $295,353
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $94,920,299
    Expenses
    $57,622,512
    Contributions
    $39,254,780
    Grants paid
    $39,929

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

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.