- Revenue 2024
- $53,626,478
- Expenses 2024
- $51,471,670
Program services were 93.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D115
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 6800 ZOO DR
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.
-
WESLEY FIELDS
BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DAVE SANCHEZ
BOARD MEMBER/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
TONY REINHART
BOARD MEMBER/CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
AL MAURO JR
BOARD MEMBER/SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JAN FRANCIS THRU 102024
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JC ALONZO
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JENNIFER BENNETT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR YOLANDA CARGILE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRIS COTTEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEFF DILLON THRU 102024
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SANDRA GARCIA THRU 102024
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JULIUS LAI
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATE LAMBERT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATIE MCDONALD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JANET MILES-BARTEE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANA NUBIA DUIN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RYANA PARKS-SHAW
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOE PRENGER THRU 102024
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIAN PUNG
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN RUSS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TODD TRENT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK SWANSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR ELLEN CROWE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HAYLEY HANSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SAL MONTALBANO
BOARD MEMBER
- 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
- $53,626,478
- Expenses
- $51,471,670
- Contributions
- $21,805,379
- Grants paid
- $506,223
-
2023
- Revenue
- $62,517,690
- Expenses
- $57,477,891
- Contributions
- $37,187,794
- Grants paid
- $235,253
-
2022
- Revenue
- $74,114,095
- Expenses
- $73,256,938
- Contributions
- $54,495,219
- Grants paid
- $153,697
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
-
$22,000
2024 CONSERVATION
-
$20,226
2022 CONSERVATION
-
$20,000
2024 CONSERVATION
-
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION
$20,000
2024 CONSERVATION
-
$20,000
2024 CONSERVATION
-
$20,000
2023 CONSERVATION
-
$15,000
2023 CONSERVATION
-
$15,000
2022 CONSERVATION
-
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION
$14,200
2023 CONSERVATION
-
$13,100
2024 CONSERVATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION
$16,100,000
2022 CAPITAL PROJECT - AQUARIUM EXHIBIT
-
FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION
$9,555,000
2023 CAPITAL PROJECT - AQUARIUM EXHIBIT
-
2024 CAPITAL PROJECT - AQUARIUM
-
$500,000
2023 NEW AQUARIUM
-
$210,000
2022 EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND SIGNAGE
-
2022 ENDANGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF
-
2024 ENDANGERED SPECIES COVID RELIEF
-
2024 Environment & Animals
-
$55,550
2023 EDUCATION PROGRAMS
-
$55,000
2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT & EVENT
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.