ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D500

Classification

2000

Street

800 CHEROKEE AVE SE

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 · 2025

• THE ANIMAL COLLECTION & WORK WITH ENDANGERED SPECIES: 2025 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE ARRIVAL OF TITAN, A 16-YEAR-OLD MALE AFRICAN ELEPHANT; BUTTERCUP, A YOUNG FEMALE SUMATRAN TIGER, BOTH RECOMMENDED THROUGH THE ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS SPECIES SURVIVAL PLAN (SSP); WAFFLES, A HOFFMANN'S TWO-TOED SLOTH BORN TO NUTELLA AND COCOA; NAFIS, A 10-YEAR-OLD SCHMIDT'S GUENON IN THE FORD AFRICAN RAIN FOREST; AND A NEW OSTRICH, OLIVE, AND PLAINS ZEBRA, NEIGHOMI, IN THE AFRICAN SAVANNA. IN A CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL MILESTONE, THE ZOO ALSO TRANSFERRED THREE FEMALE GORILLAS, ANDI, MERRY, AND ANAKA, TO SAN ANTONIO ZOO TO BE PART OF A NEW TROOP.

  Expenses $10,878,528 · Grants $197,125

• ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP & WORKFORCE EXCELLENCE: THE ZOO INCORPORATES ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO ITS BUSINESS BY REDUCING IMPACT THROUGH POLLUTION PREVENTION, WASTE REDUCTION, AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES. THE GREEN TEAM MONITORS THE ZOO'S ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS AND MAINTAINS A SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACE. THE ZOO'S BOARD AND TEAM MEMBERS ARE COMPOSED OF TALENTED INDIVIDUALS WITH A BROAD RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, PERSPECTIVES, SKILLS, AND BACKGROUNDS, SUPPORTING THOUGHTFUL DECISION-MAKING AND THE ZOO'S MISSION.

  Expenses $10,607,205

• EDUCATION & CONSERVATION: IN 2025, THE ZOO'S PUBLIC, SCHOOL, AND FAMILY EDUCATION PROGRAMS SERVED 775,116 INDIVIDUALS. EDUCATION PROGRAMS CREATE FUN AND ENGAGING EXPERIENCES TO CONNECT ZOO VISITORS WITH WILDLIFE, SUPPORT SCIENCE CURRICULA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD, AND EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE ACTION. 25 CENTS OF EVERY ZOO ADMISSION TICKET BENEFIT CONSERVATION PROJECTS FOR WILDLIFE AND WILD PLACES AROUND THE WORLD. THE MABEL DORN REEDER CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND AWARDED SEVEN GRANTS TOTALING $66,000 IN 2025.

  Expenses $3,634,831 · Grants $66,000 · Revenue $1,331,646

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $6,917,069 · Revenue $17,253,478

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $42,311,626

  Expenses

  $35,610,875

  Contributions

  $21,706,277

  Grants paid

  $263,125

• 2023

  Revenue

  $46,504,632

  Expenses

  $31,668,462

  Contributions

  $23,241,924

  Grants paid

  $288,929

• 2022

  Revenue

  $35,001,051

  Expenses

  $29,521,887

  Contributions

  $15,197,839

  Grants paid

  $88,000

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

• 2025 · 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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $33,379,671

  Expenses

  $26,620,716

  Assets (EOY)

  $96,858,254

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $20,822,460

  Expenses

  $23,232,874

  Assets (EOY)

  $88,329,829

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $30,140,543

  Expenses

  $24,734,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $90,709,475

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,037,436

  Expenses

  $22,832,723

  Assets (EOY)

  $84,396,476

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $40,794,891

  Expenses

  $23,463,983

  Assets (EOY)

  $85,177,615

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

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATIONS - FRIENDS OF TUSK

  $60,000

  2022 · TO HELP WITH ELEPHANTS

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATIONS - FRIENDS OF TUSK

  $55,000

  2025 · TO HELP WITH ELEPHANTS

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATIONS - FRIENDS OF TUSK

  $50,000

  2023 · TO HELP WITH ELEPHANTS

• TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE

  $15,000

  2025 · TO HELP WITH TURTLES

• PEREGRINE FUND

  $13,000

  2023 · TO HELP WITH PEREGRINE FALCONS

• CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO

  $11,151

  2025 · TO HELP WITH GORILLAS

• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC

  $10,000

  2025 · GENERAL CONSERVATION

• MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2025 · TO HELP WITH TIGERS

• BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL USA

  $10,000

  2025 · TO HELP WITH ORANGUTANS

• WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $10,000

  2025 · GENERAL CONSERVATION

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $174,416

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $149,129

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $139,398

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC

  $122,500

  2023 · ANIMAL-RELATED

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $120,034

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $96,798

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $87,738

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $79,628

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $79,294

  2024 · CHARITABLE DONATION

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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