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GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

EIN 75-1853975 TUSCOLA, TX

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Revenue 2024
$4,403,685
Expenses 2024
$773,026

Program services were 95.4% 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
1326 COUNTY ROAD 650

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 ENCOURAGE CHARITABLE GIVING TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS AT THE ABILENE ZOO WHICH PROVIDES ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT FOR ANIMALS, EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATION EXPERIENCES FOR GUESTS, AND PROMOTES CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • SUPPORTING ABILENE ZOO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

    Expenses $737,758 · Grants $737,758

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.

  • Randy Piersall

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig Fisher

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pat Evans

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chuck Erwin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carolyn Beckham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Haynes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathy Morehead

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pat Dunnahoo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leigh Black

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jesse Pottebaum

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Larry Gill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Montoya

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Goodin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gail Russey

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Darrel Knight

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $4,403,685
    Expenses
    $773,026
    Contributions
    $4,081,419
    Grants paid
    $737,758
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,230,473
    Expenses
    $1,092,541
    Contributions
    $3,925,068
    Grants paid
    $1,066,714
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $65,300
    Expenses
    $73,977
    Contributions
    $71,708
    Grants paid
    $56,000

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
    $104,040
    Expenses
    $33,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,328,345
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,294
    Expenses
    $689,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,258,006
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,029,174
    Expenses
    $1,354,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,543,527
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $595,473
    Expenses
    $214,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,568,355
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $656,604
    Expenses
    $14,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,187,528
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $656,604
    Expenses
    $14,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,187,528
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $273,702
    Expenses
    $3,609,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,514,722
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $897,910
    Expenses
    $14,509
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,780,639
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,208,883
    Expenses
    $13,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,847,238
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $394,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,652,051

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 13 October 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.