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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC

EIN 16-1407299 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2025
$560,250
Expenses 2025
$259,236

Program services were 92.6% 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
300 PARKSIDE AVE

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).

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 R SANDERSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ROBERT D YALOWICH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAULETTE M CROOKE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN A DANDES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT M GREENE ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK PHILLIPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN O RAWLINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JAMES SMYTON ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE A SULLIVAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DENISE K SCHAEFER

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $162,185
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $142,638
    Other
    $19,547
    Hours/week
    4 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $142,638 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $10,358 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $9,189 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $162,185 related

  • LISA SMITH

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $253,221
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $212,825
    Other
    $40,396
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $207,825 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $5,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $8,608 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $31,788 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $253,221 related

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 — 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
    $560,250
    Expenses
    $259,236
    Contributions
    $401,815
    Grants paid
    $240,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $550,697
    Expenses
    $238,180
    Contributions
    $347,954
    Grants paid
    $220,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $179,339
    Expenses
    $207,975
    Contributions
    $126,565
    Grants paid
    $190,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $998,241
    Expenses
    $214,972
    Contributions
    $889,844
    Grants paid
    $200,000

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.