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FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC

EIN 35-6068234 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2023
$15,740,300
Expenses 2023
$18,577,780

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D115
Classification
1200
Street
3411 SHERMAN BLVD

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.

  • CHRIS GOMEZ

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • TOM ACKMANN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH EARLS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTIN MARCUCCILLI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WHITNEY BANDEMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN EMERICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVE MCCOMB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HAGERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RON HOWARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN ANDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDY BROWN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DON CATES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM ELLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KYLE KRISH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER SCHIMMELE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY SHEARER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOMINIC FREIBURGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK SURACK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL KHORSHID

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PARIS MCFARTHING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHEL STEINHOFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RON TURPIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY LOURAINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICK SCHUITEMAN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - ZOO

    Total calculated
    $222,473
    From this org
    $190,049
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,424
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $190,049
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,286
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,138
    Filer's total
    $222,473

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. 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
    $15,740,300
    Expenses
    $18,577,780
    Contributions
    $3,803,824
    Grants paid
    $247,507
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,430,147
    Expenses
    $12,754,297
    Contributions
    $5,252,524
    Grants paid
    $307,209

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.