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MEMPHIS ZOO INC

EIN 23-7236155 MEMPHIS, TN

Revenue 2024
$30,584,120
Expenses 2024
$27,500,682

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D500
Classification
1200
Street
2000 PRENTISS 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).

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.

  • David Hopkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Delisa Eddings

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Maria Leggett

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Aaron Campbell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bram Bors-Koefoed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Thornton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Smith

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Whitehead

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Jalenak

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Maykowski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Presley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Savage

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerry Shore

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph DeWane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelly Truitt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Tharp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mario Walker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maurice Stratton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samantha Dean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sirella Parker-Joyner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Farnsworth III

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tyler Beard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Clayton Jones

    COO

    Total calculated
    $163,472
    From this org
    $150,340
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,132
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,340
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,008
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,124
    Filer's total
    $163,472

  • Courtney Janney

    CZO

    Total calculated
    $151,118
    From this org
    $144,710
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,408
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,710
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,668
    Nontaxable benefits
    $740
    Filer's total
    $151,118

  • Mary Beil

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $174,716
    From this org
    $167,254
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,462
    Hours/week
    40 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,254
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,683
    Nontaxable benefits
    $779
    Filer's total
    $174,716

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
    $30,584,120
    Expenses
    $27,500,682
    Contributions
    $13,452,471
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,787,222
    Expenses
    $29,317,647
    Contributions
    $7,948,945
    Grants paid
    $73,118
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $25,890,431
    Expenses
    $34,791,582
    Contributions
    $6,643,580
    Grants paid
    $7,735,298

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.