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JOHNNY MORRIS WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

EIN 82-2342237 SPRINGFIELD, MO

Revenue 2025
$26,281,365
Expenses 2025
$22,469,057

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
1200
Street
500 W SUNSHINE 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 · 2025

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO INSPIRE FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BY CELEBRATING THE STEWARDSHIP OF HUNTERS AND ANGLERS AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO CONNECT WITH NATURE THROUGH FISHING, HUNTING AND OUTDOOR RECREATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OPERATES JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND AQUARIUM IN SPRINGFIELD, MO. THIS MUSEUM HOUSES THE LARGEST, MOST IMMERSIVE FISH AND WILDLIFE ATTRACTION IN THE WORLD AND BRINGS TOGETHER IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS INTO A SINGLE VISITOR EXPERIENCE. THESE UNIQUE AND CAREFULLY CURATED EXHIBITS PRESENT A DESTINATION FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE VALUE OF CONSERVATION.

  • THE FOUNDATION MANAGES AND OPERATES JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND AQUARIUM (WOW) LOCATED IN SPRINGFIELD, MO. THE MUSEUM AND AQUARIUM OFFER VISITORS A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE TO LEARN ABOUT CONSERVATION THROUGH TOURS, LIVE ANIMAL COLLECTIONS, TAXIDERMIED WILDLIFE GALLERIES AND OTHER EXHIBITS. THE EXPERIENCE CELEBRATES THOSE WHO HUNT, FISH AND ACT AS STEWARDS OF THE LAND AND WATER. THE EDUCATION TEAM CONNECTS PEOPLE TO NATURE THROUGH INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMS, OUTREACH AND FIELD PROGRAMS. THE WONDERS OF WILDLIFE HOUSES THE EXHIBIT, NATURE'S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY. THIS EXHIBIT IS HOME TO THE WINDLAND SMITH RICE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND ITS ANNUAL NATURE'S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, PREVIOUSLY ONLY DISPLAYED AT THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ESTABLISHED TO RECOGNIZE AND DISPLAY THE CREATIVE TALENTS AND DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS WORLDWIDE, THE EXHIBITION FEATURES A ROTATING GALLERY OF JAW-DROPPING WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AS A CELEBRATION OF BOTH PEOPLE AND NATURE.

    Expenses $18,966,891 · Grants $500 · Revenue $19,750,568

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JOHN L MORRIS

    PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related

  • JOHN P MORRIS

    SECRETARY/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 7 related

  • MEGAN C STACK

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 7 related

  • COLLIN O'MARA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 6 related

  • DALE HALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 6 related

  • NICK WILEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • KEVIN MALISZEWSKI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related

  • JARED BOYD

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $149,753
    From this org
    $127,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,138
    Hours/week
    15 + 30 related

  • JAYMZ THOMASSON

    SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $126,357
    From this org
    $110,690
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,667
    Hours/week
    31 + 14 related

  • JOHN MIKOLAJCZYK

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $214,824
    From this org
    $189,980
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,844
    Hours/week
    15 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,980
    Bonus
    $40,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,302
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,542
    Filer's total
    $214,824

  • MIKE DANIEL

    DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL CARE

    Total calculated
    $161,793
    From this org
    $127,487
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,306
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,487
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,355
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,951
    Filer's total
    $161,793

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $26,281,365
    Expenses
    $22,469,057
    Contributions
    $6,036,956
    Grants paid
    $500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $32,378,834
    Expenses
    $20,149,042
    Contributions
    $14,413,147
    Grants paid
    $200,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $26,245,773
    Expenses
    $18,793,657
    Contributions
    $7,491,121
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $25,950,320
    Expenses
    $18,681,058
    Contributions
    $8,625,203
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,583,902
    Expenses
    $17,786,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,645,334

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,407,531
    Expenses
    $15,745,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,984,974

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,605,936
    Expenses
    $19,244,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,797,507

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $59,635,178
    Expenses
    $17,473,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,682,211

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,336,576
    Expenses
    $5,059,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,260,508

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2025 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.