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AKRON ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC

EIN 27-2982961 AKRON, OH

Revenue 2023
$280,314
Expenses 2023
$66,636

Program services were 48.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D11
Classification
1000
Street
500 EDGEWOOD 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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JOHN SLAGTER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.5 related
  • BETH REHO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.6 related
  • VANESSA ANTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1
  • PATRICK MCMAHON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.2 related
  • BRIAN RENKAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1
  • MICHELE SANTANA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 1.3 related
  • JAMES SNIDER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.6 related
  • SOPHIA VEILLETTE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1 + 0.6 related
  • DOUG PIEKARZ

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $342,535
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $275,062
    Other
    $67,473
    Hours/week
    4.5 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $225,062 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $50,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $35,136 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $32,337 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $342,535 related
  • MELLISSA REED

    CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER & SR VP

    Total calculated
    $230,689
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $182,554
    Other
    $48,135
    Hours/week
    4.5 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $165,554 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $17,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $20,418 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,717 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $230,689 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $280,314
    Expenses
    $66,636
    Contributions
    $35,616
    Grants paid
    $32,281
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $212,603
    Expenses
    $88,227
    Contributions
    $31,048
    Grants paid
    $49,889

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

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

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 2023 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 SOUNK.

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.