- Revenue 2024
- $69,378,528
- Expenses 2024
- $63,617,523
Program services were 88.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D500
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 3400 VINE ST
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.
-
ADAM MUELLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALBERT SMITHERMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANYA SANCHEZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
AUSTIN HEIDT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BOB COUGHLIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRETT HEEKIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CARLA WALKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CATHY CRAIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRIS BEVACQUA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CRAIG YOUNG
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DANIEL RAJAIAH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DOTTY SHAFFER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DOUG BRENDAMOUR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GARY MITCHELL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GIGI HEIDT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GREG TAYLOR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAN MICHELE KEARNEY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEN CASTELLINI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEN RAGLAND
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN NIEMEYER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN WILLIAMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATIE O'BRIEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LELA COFFEY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LINDA LEE THOMAS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LUCY CHRISTENSEN-DAVIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $69,378,528
- Expenses
- $63,617,523
- Contributions
- $41,848,300
- Grants paid
- $952,427
-
2023
- Revenue
- $119,557,573
- Expenses
- $58,622,654
- Contributions
- $89,942,990
- Grants paid
- $700,177
-
2022
- Revenue
- $73,083,333
- Expenses
- $54,883,019
- Contributions
- $48,113,547
- Grants paid
- $625,617
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 the Form 990 only. 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
-
$106,000
2024 GORILLA CONSERVATION/CONGO BASIN
-
$72,244
2024 CONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
-
$50,000
2023 GORILLA CONSERVATION/CONGO BASIN
-
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
$50,000
2022 GORILLA CONSERVATION/CONGO BASIN
-
$49,500
2023 UGANDA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION SUPPORT
-
INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION
$35,320
2023 DESIGNING NEXT PHASE SUMATRAN RHINO SANCTUARY, INDONESIA
-
$31,000
2024 ANNUAL SUPPORT
-
INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION
$29,000
2024 CONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
-
INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION
$26,630
2022 SUPPORT FOR ASIAN RHINOS AT IRF DISCRETION
-
$25,000
2023 CONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
$1,376,134
2023 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE CINCINNATI ZOO.
-
$1,240,150
2022 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE CINCINNATI ZOO.
-
$1,137,208
2024 PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT
-
$775,593
2022 GENERAL PURPOSE
-
$637,160
2023 PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$482,180
2022 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2024 AFRICAN LIONS & ENDAGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF
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
-
501(C)(3) · ENDOWMENT FOR THE ZOO · OH · controlled entity
Declared as related by
-
On its 2024 return
-
On its 2024 return
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.