- Revenue 2024
- $22,832,092
- Expenses 2024
- $18,379,087
Program services were 86.0% 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
- 6421 E 36TH ST N
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
CONNECTING, CARING, ADVOCATING FOR WILDLIFE, PEOPLE, AND WILD PLACES.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $15,814,861 · Grants $1,510,123 · Revenue $14,727,678
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
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.
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Scott VandergriffSCOTT VANDERGRIFF
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Meghan JoinerMEGHAN JOINER
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Mike MiersMIKE MIERS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Joel-Lyn McCormickJOEL-LYN MCCORMICK
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Jeff JamesJEFF JAMES
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Brad MuellerBRAD MUELLER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Stuart LambSTUART LAMB
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Suzanne KnealeSUZANNE KNEALE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Jamie WheelerJAMIE WHEELER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Betty PirnatBETTY PIRNAT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Lisa DayLISA DAY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Barb StanleyBARB STANLEY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Randy BensonRANDY BENSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Kevin BoydKEVIN BOYD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Monty ButtsMONTY BUTTS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Jordan HelmerichJORDAN HELMERICH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Michael JunkMICHAEL JUNK
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Kenneth KleinKENNETH KLEIN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Jim LostroscioJIM LOSTROSCIO
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Lindsay MorrisLINDSAY MORRIS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Mendee PerryMENDEE PERRY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Kris JacksonKRIS JACKSON
BOARD APPOINTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Lindsay HutchisonLINDSAY HUTCHISON
PRESIDENT AND CEO
- Total calculated
- $163,033
- From this org
- $158,119
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,914
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $158,119
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,914
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $163,033
-
Joe BarkowskiJOE BARKOWSKI
VP OF ANIMAL CONSERVATION & SCIENCE
- Total calculated
- $135,407
- From this org
- $125,868
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,539
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Megan MeussnerMEGAN MEUSSNER
VP OF PHILANTHROPY
- Total calculated
- $109,026
- From this org
- $102,528
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,498
- Hours/week
- 40
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, 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
- $22,832,092
- Expenses
- $18,379,087
- Contributions
- $6,345,334
- Grants paid
- $1,510,123
-
2023
- Revenue
- $24,540,834
- Expenses
- $21,697,334
- Contributions
- $9,574,235
- Grants paid
- $6,268,526
-
2022
- Revenue
- $22,718,335
- Expenses
- $17,497,606
- Contributions
- $7,618,925
- Grants paid
- $2,471,803
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
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $14,887,524
- Expenses
- $8,331,891
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,061,416
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $14,770,008
- Expenses
- $11,100,862
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,461,094
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $14,504,258
- Expenses
- $12,265,434
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,712,798
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $15,724,984
- Expenses
- $13,444,713
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,527,306
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $16,525,779
- Expenses
- $13,641,383
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,517,659
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $15,647,583
- Expenses
- $24,871,589
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,052,651
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,816,752
- Expenses
- $14,681,938
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,684,890
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
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CITY OF TULSA - TULSA ZOO
$0
2023 SUPPORT FOR THE TULSA ZOO AND LIVING MUSEUM
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CITY OF TULSA - TULSA ZOO
$0
2022 SUPPORT FOR THE TULSA ZOO AND LIVING MUSEUM
-
CITY OF TULSA - TULSA ZOO
$0
2024 SUPPORT FOR THE TULSA ZOO AND LIVING MUSEUM
Grants received
-
$1,646,638
2023 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
$301,024
2024 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$78,989
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$20,000
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
$20,000
2024 TO SUPPORT PROVIDING EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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 2024 return
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501(C)(3) · RAISE FUNDS FOR THE LONG-TERM OPERATIONS AND SUCCESS OF TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT · OK · controlled entity
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 11 November 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.