NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D50

Classification

1000

Street

4403 ZOO PKWY

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

• PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO THE NC ZOOLOGICAL PARK AND ITS CAPITAL PROJECTS, OPERATIONS AND PROGRAM INITIATIVES - WITH A PRIORITY FOCUS ON FIELD RESEARCH, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, SCIENCE AND WELFARE. THE SOCIETY HAS PROVIDED FUNDS FOR SPECIFIC CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH PROJECTS WORKING WITH ELEPHANTS, VULTURES AND GORILLAS IN AFRICA, RAISED FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS, ANIMAL AND HORTICULTURE PURCHASES, MARKETING, STAFFING, TRAINING, AND OPERATIONS OF A WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER, A WILDLIFE LEARNING/RESIDENTIAL CENTER, AN EDUCATION WEBSITE AND OTHER PARK NEEDS.

  Expenses $9,401,549

• MEMBERSHIP SERVICES (INCLUDING INFORMATION AND REFERRAL, EDUCATION, MEMBER BENEFIT AND IDENTIFCATION ADMINISTRATION, RECORD-KEEPING AND SPECIAL EVENTS) EXTEND TO MEMBER HOUSEHOLDS AND THE EMPLOYEES OF BUSINESSES ENROLLED IN THE CORPORATE MEMBER PROGRAM, AS WELL AS ALL OF THE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHO BENEFIT FROM THE PROTECTION THE SOCIETY'S PROGRAM EXTENDS TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES THEY DEPEND ON FOR SURVIVAL.

  Expenses $1,866,346

• THROUGH ITS SUPPORT OF ZOO EDUCATION PROGRAMS, THE SOCIETY SERVES VISITORS AND MEMBER HOUSEHOLDS (INCLUDING N.C. SCHOOL CHILDREN). THROUGH FIELD RESEARCH AND VETERINARIAN OVERNIGHT CAMPS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF AGES, SHADOW A VET PROGRAM, EDUCATIONAL AND FAMILY-FRIENDLY BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO COME TO THE PARK EACH YEAR TO LEARN ABOUT WILDLIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

  Expenses $61,466

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.

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

  $15,456,610

  Expenses

  $12,520,275

  Contributions

  $10,361,042

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,509,202

  Expenses

  $10,473,159

  Contributions

  $10,060,086

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $16,669,075

  Expenses

  $10,107,226

  Contributions

  $13,088,609

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $17,858,936

  Expenses

  $9,501,379

  Contributions

  $15,761,887

  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

  $18,648,155

  Expenses

  $7,625,557

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,767,222

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,963,708

  Expenses

  $4,672,631

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,359,144

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,028,440

  Expenses

  $6,485,196

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,817,134

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,003,919

  Expenses

  $5,652,693

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,691,632

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,868,928

  Expenses

  $5,639,739

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,487,990

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,134,868

  Expenses

  $6,807,163

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,009,886

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,222,709

  Expenses

  $5,804,390

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,324,486

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,282,920

  Expenses

  $5,473,719

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,226,768

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,734,303

  Expenses

  $7,444,488

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,306,396

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

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

• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC

  $851,949

  2022 · GRANT #21S-0024 & ENDANGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF

• WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

  $549,590

  2022 · 17 GRANT(S) FOR VARYING PURPOSES

• WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

  $529,853

  2023 · 18 grant(s) for varying purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $136,457

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

  $118,108

  2024 · 13 grant(s) for varying purposes

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $87,307

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $76,521

  2022 · ANIMAL-RELATED

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $73,979

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $69,136

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $63,936

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

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

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