FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC
EIN 23-7083532 SYRACUSE, NY
- Revenue 2025
- $5,446,793
- Expenses 2025
- $4,509,396
Program services were 60.9% 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
- 1 CONSERVATION PL
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 STIMULATE THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN THE EXTENSION & IMPROVEMENT OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, TO ASSIST IN THE EXPANSION OF ZOO FACILITIES.
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ZOO SUPPORT - MEMBERSHIP FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOLICITED; ZOO VOLUNTEERS ARE RECRUITED, TRAINED AND COORDINATED; A PERIODIC PUBLICATION IS ISSUED; SPECIAL EVENTS FOR MEMBERS ARE SPONSORED; SUPPORT FOR ZOOKEEPER EDUCATION IS PROVIDED; AND ADDITIONS OR UPGRADES OF ZOO EXHIBITS ARE SUPPORTED.
Expenses $1,198,345 · Revenue $108,867
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GIFT SHOP AND CAFE - THE FRIENDS RUN A GIFT SHOP AND JUNGLE CAFE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE ZOO FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE VISITORS. ALL PROFITS FROM SALES GO TO SUPPORT THE ZOO. THIS AMOUNT IS THE OPERATING COSTS OF RUNNING THE GIFT SHOP AND CAFE.
Expenses $238,946 · Revenue $1,851,509
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS - THE FRIENDS HAVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT THE ZOO DURING THE SUMMER AND DURING SCHOOL BREAKS, AS WELL AS PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN THE COMMUNITY (ZOO TO YOU).
Expenses $507,534 · Revenue $299,792
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FACILITY RENTAL/CATERING
Expenses $800,654
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.
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DEBRA CODY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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AMANDA HULL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN HARRIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MELISSA OLIVER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SAVANNAH GIBBS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ZINA BERRY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NATALIE SCAVONE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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KATHY O'CONNELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DANIEL JENKINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERRY HOPKINS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
AUSTIN PHILLEO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MEGHAN THOMAS
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
RYAN LYNCH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TIM CROSBY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MELISSA HICKS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JODY MANNING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DEBORAH MESSINA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN LOBDELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN COLE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BETH KING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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STEVEN LICKSTEIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SABRINA WEBSTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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AMANDA FOSTER
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JAMIE CARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CARRIE LARGE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $135,579
- From this org
- $135,579
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $5,446,793
- Expenses
- $4,509,396
- Contributions
- $2,067,991
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,492,626
- Expenses
- $4,308,633
- Contributions
- $1,639,917
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,769,122
- Expenses
- $3,959,853
- Contributions
- $1,522,668
- 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
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2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,684,442
- Expenses
- $2,861,983
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,326,099
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,740,367
- Expenses
- $2,390,970
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,061,218
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2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,378,797
- Expenses
- $2,815,241
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,475,367
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,945,304
- Expenses
- $2,871,036
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,408,624
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,391,923
- Expenses
- $2,558,247
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,596,747
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,828,436
- Expenses
- $4,444,180
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,608,302
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
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT; CAPITAL SUPPORT; PROJECT SUPPORT; STAFF SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT; CAPITAL SUPPORT; SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT; PROGRAM/PROJECT SUPPORT
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$21,800
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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2023 ARGALI RAM RE-HOMING AND TRANSFER
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2023 THIS DONATION HELPED SUPPORT TWO OF THE ZOO'S BIGGEST FUNDRAISERS, BREW AT THE ZOO AND THE FALL CONSERVATION BASH.
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2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2025 return
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CATERING AT THE ZOO LLC
TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES PERMITTED BY LLC LAW FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS SOLE MEM · NY · income $994,338 · assets $452,782
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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.