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FRIENDS OF PINE GROVE ZOO

EIN 41-1949216 LITTLE FALLS, MN

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Revenue 2025
$785,377
Expenses 2025
$784,766

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
1000
Street
1200 W BROADWAY

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

TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION WHILE CREATING A PROGRESSIVE ZOOLOGICAL PARK IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

  • THE PINE GROVE ZOO IS A SMALL ZOO THAT IS PART OF A COMMUNITY OF APPROXIMATELY 8,300 PEOPLE. EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SMALL IN SIZE, THE IMPACT WE HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES IS VAST. ONE WAY THIS IS EVIDENT IS IN OUR THRIVING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. THE NUMBER OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WE OFFER IS MODEST BUT THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION WE ARE ABLE TO CONVEY THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS ARE IMMENSE AND FAR REACHING. OUR PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO CONNECT WITH A VARIETY OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, INTERESTS, AND BACKGROUNDS THRU INTERACTIVE, EDUCATIONAL, AND FUN ACTIVITIES. VISITORS TO THE PINE GROVE ZOO THRU ADMISSIONS AND EVENTS TOTALED 22,446 FOR THE 2025 SEASON. THESE VISITORS CAME FROM 203 CITIES IN MINNESOTA, 50 STATES, AND 5 COUNTRIES. OUR ON SITE SELF-GUIDED AND GUIDED TOURS PROVIDED INTERACTIVE, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR 2,411 PEOPLE FROM CITIES THROUGHOUT CENTRAL MINNESOTA. ON-SITE EDUCATION PROGRAMS SUCH AS OPERANT TRAINING DEMONSTRATIONS; ZOOKEEPER AND ENRICHMENT PRESENTATIONS; DREW OVER 1,788 PEOPLE.WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE OUR ZOO GONE WILD IN WHICH WE HAD 418 IN ATTENDANCE. IN OCTOBER, WE HAD OUR FIRST ANNUAL BOOFEST WITH 1,285 IN ATTENDANCE.THE VOLUNTEER EFFORTS OF PINE GROVE ZOO WERE SUPPORTED BY 46 VOLUNTEERS OVER THE YEAR AND THOSE VOLUNTEERS LOGGED 889 HOURS.

    Expenses $635,111 · Revenue $216,621

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Marnita Van Hoecke

    ZOO DIRECTOR, EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $64,800
    From this org
    $61,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,240
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jerry Lochner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Kapsner

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margit Lemieur

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Amanda Craft

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacki Retka

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Allison Zak

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jayne Cekalla

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Dubbin

    BOARD MEMBER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $785,377
    Expenses
    $784,766
    Contributions
    $491,633
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $672,279
    Expenses
    $744,444
    Contributions
    $332,797
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $672,308
    Expenses
    $757,386
    Contributions
    $330,227
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $549,928
    Expenses
    $610,043
    Contributions
    $200,920
    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
    $627,824
    Expenses
    $564,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,584

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $472,986
    Expenses
    $446,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $405,803

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,307
    Expenses
    $408,151
    Assets (EOY)
    $378,605

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,074
    Expenses
    $392,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,212

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,586
    Expenses
    $395,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,553

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,808
    Expenses
    $327,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,458

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $364,909
    Expenses
    $337,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,890

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,226
    Expenses
    $319,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,201

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $330,247
    Expenses
    $332,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,904

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $339,142
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,670

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.