CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D500

Classification

2800

Street

PO BOX 5238

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

• OAKLAND ZOO IS PROUD OF ITS CONTINUED SUCCESS IN ANIMAL CARE AND WELFARE, LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT, AND CONSERVATION INITIATIVES. THE ZOO IS HOME TO OVER 700 ANIMALS THAT OUR STAFF PROVIDE INDUSTRY LEADING CARE FOR TO ENSURE THEIR PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING. CONSERVATION IS CORE TO OUR MISSION, AND THE ZOO CONTINUES TO FOCUS ITS EFFORTS ON TEN SPECIES INCLUDING AFRICAN ELEPHANTS, CHIMPANZEES, BISON, AFRICAN LIONS, CALIFORNIA CONDORS, AND MORE. OUR VETERINARY AND ANIMAL CARE TEAMS CONTINUE OUR LOCAL WILDLIFE RESCUE WORK WITH OAKLAND'S CITY BIRD, THE BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON, AND WE RESCUED OUR 30TH MOUNTAIN LION IN 2025. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O.WE ARE THE FIRST ZOO IN THE UNITED STATES TO RECEIVE FUNDING FOR A DEDICATED POSITION TO ADDRESS ANIMAL WELFARE RESCUE AND THE WILDLIFE TRADE, WHICH IS DEVASTING SPECIES AND HABITATS INTERNATIONALLY. LAST YEAR WE EXPANDED OUR ONSITE GUEST EDUCATION PROVIDING ANIMAL HIGHLIGHT PROGRAMS TO 30,000 GUESTS AND ENHANCING OUR DOCENT OFFERINGS TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF BIODIVERSITY. AND WE CELEBRATED THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER WE HELPED TO OPEN IN UGANDA, WHICH HAS NOW PROVIDED SERVICES FOR OVER 5,000 LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS COEXISTING WITH CHIMPANZEES AND OTHER SPECIES. ALONGSIDE OUR PROGRAMMATIC WORK THE ZOO WELCOMED 58,000 GUESTS FOR FREE DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, PROVIDING OUR COMMUNITY WITH A SPACE FOR CONNECTION, HOPE, AND LIFELONG MEMORIES. IN 2023, THE ZOO ESTABLISHED A FOUR-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN WITH INPUT FROM THOUSANDS OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS. THE FOLLOWING KEY PRIORITIES REMAIN OUR FOCUS THROUGH 2027:- INSPIRING ACTION FOR ANIMALS AND THE PLANET- EXPANDING LEADERSHIP IN ANIMAL WELLBEING AND RESCUE- DEEPENING OUR CONSERVATION IMPACT- ENHANCING OUR TEAM CULTURE AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

  Expenses $28,627,038 · Grants $485,610 · Revenue $22,410,449

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $35,008,424

  Expenses

  $36,079,027

  Contributions

  $10,144,303

  Grants paid

  $485,610

• 2023

  Revenue

  $31,502,981

  Expenses

  $35,476,027

  Contributions

  $8,823,295

  Grants paid

  $604,675

• 2022

  Revenue

  $30,880,796

  Expenses

  $31,683,363

  Contributions

  $10,616,996

  Grants paid

  $776,948

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

  $35,355,250

  Expenses

  $30,159,043

  Assets (EOY)

  $99,127,027

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,540,665

  Expenses

  $23,893,513

  Assets (EOY)

  $98,080,937

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,058,172

  Expenses

  $23,143,557

  Assets (EOY)

  $96,733,164

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $23,716,679

  Expenses

  $25,690,813

  Assets (EOY)

  $96,145,548

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,143,473

  Expenses

  $21,627,703

  Assets (EOY)

  $101,431,763

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $33,189,378

  Expenses

  $17,255,821

  Assets (EOY)

  $89,629,645

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $34,773,298

  Expenses

  $16,372,271

  Assets (EOY)

  $70,440,124

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,678,767

  Expenses

  $15,458,948

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,964,851

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $15,112,224

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,146,356

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $15,205,479

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,407,092

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

• AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS

  $71,500

  2023 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• AMBOSELI

  $70,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS

• AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS

  $70,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• NEW NATURE FOUNDATION

  $55,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• ARCAS

  $50,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• ARCAS

  $50,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• WORKING CIRCLE

  $40,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• WORKING CIRCLE

  $40,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS

• WORKING CIRCLE

  $40,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

• BIG LIFE FOUNDTION

  $30,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS ANNUAL GIVING

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $813,284

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $434,089

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $415,109

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $279,875

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $221,489

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $170,000

  2024 · PARTNERSHIP WITH ELEPHANT NONPROFITS

• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC

  $159,690

  2022 · ENDANGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $155,000

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $150,773

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $103,851

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $273,506 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $129,434 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $72,584 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $25,550 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $239,644 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $113,969 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $75,667 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $29,340 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $342,302 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $203,602 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $54,800 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $14,332 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $142,690 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $51,250 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $85,505 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $41,585 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $190,649 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $96,799 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $37,091 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $13,061 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $217,572 raised

  2019 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $143,424 to charity

• ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

  $38,873 raised

  2019 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $15,973 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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