- Revenue 2024
- $22,916,066
- Expenses 2024
- $18,552,991
Program services were 91.1% 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
- 5555 W ZOO 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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY IS DEDICATED TO INSPIRING RESPECT AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE AND WILD PLACES THROUGH OUR COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING EXCELLENT CARE AND WELFARE FOR OUR ANIMALS, BUILDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN OUR GUESTS AND THE ANIMALS IN OUR CARE, AND PROMOTING CONSERVATION INITIATIVES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY WORKS TO FOSTER PUBLIC INTEREST AND SUPPORT FOR THE SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO, BY OPERATING AND MAINTAINING THE ZOO. THE ZOO HAS SEEN STEADY PROGRESS THROUGH THE PAST FIVE DECADES WITH MAJOR EXHIBITS OPENING EVERY FEW YEARS. THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ALSO PROMOTES EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TO BETTER AID IN THE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF BOTH ZOO AND WILD ANIMALS.
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OPERATIONS OF THE SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO. SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO IS ACCREDITED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS AND IS NATIONALLY RENOWNED. IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ZOOS IN THE UNITED STATES AND IS KANSAS' MOST POPULAR TOURIST ATTRACTION WITH OVER HALF A MILLION VISITORS ANNUALLY. THE SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO HAS OVER 2,500 ANIMALS OF NEARLY 500 SPECIES.
Expenses $14,483,826
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GUEST SERVICES RELATED TO THE SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO. THERE WERE 18,048 ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPS IN 2024 WITH 649,284 VISITORS TO THE ORGANIZATION IN 2024.
Expenses $2,425,586
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
-
KRISTEN ABERLE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
STANLEY ANDEEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
WALT BERRY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
TYLER BOSS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
SAM CHANDLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MONTE COOK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DAVID DENNIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MARK C DEVRIES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BRYCE DOUGHERTY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
KIM DOZE-LOHMANN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
AMY EKERBERG
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
STEPHANIE HARDER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MORLEY HEALY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
TIM KAUFMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MELISSA KNOEBER
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
GARY KOHN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
SAM MARNICK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
LAURA DAKHIL MONAHAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MARKUS PHOX
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MARY LYNN PRIEST
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JANET SCHWINDAMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
R TODD SLAWSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
TOM STOLZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANGELA VANDEUSEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MANDY WILBERT
BOARD VICE-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $22,916,066
- Expenses
- $18,552,991
- Contributions
- $13,868,386
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $18,377,234
- Expenses
- $17,183,646
- Contributions
- $9,803,435
- Grants paid
- $101,300
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2022
- Revenue
- $18,448,053
- Expenses
- $14,772,334
- Contributions
- $10,017,045
- Grants paid
- $0
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
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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
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $22,816,774
- Expenses
- $12,963,829
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,652,414
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,689,591
- Expenses
- $11,360,486
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,522,865
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $24,336,007
- Expenses
- $12,487,893
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,570,499
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,094,514
- Expenses
- $12,371,361
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,911,201
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,676,297
- Expenses
- $11,625,854
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,093,218
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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2023 FOUNDATION INVESTMENT
Grants received
-
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$50,000
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
-
$39,600
2024 GENERAL PURPOSES, NEW ELEPHANT HABITAT
-
DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF KANSAS INC
$34,250
2024 Charitable Giving
-
2022 SUSTAINABILITY GRANT
-
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$17,541
2022 QUARTERLY DISTRIBUTION, GENERAL PURPOSES, THE WINTER FUND CAMPAIGN
-
$15,879
2024 GENERAL PURPOSES, THE ELEPHANT BOMA
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
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SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC
501(C)(3) · TO SERVE AS A FUNDRAISING & SUPPORT ORGANIZATION FOR THE SOCIETY · KS
Declared as related by
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SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
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 13 October 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 registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.