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ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

EIN 86-0174843 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2023
$49,345,230
Expenses 2023
$42,576,318

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D500
Classification
1280
Street
455 N GALVIN PKWY

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 · 2023

Mission

THE ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ADVANCES THE STEWARDSHIP AND CONSERVATION OF ANIMALS AND THEIR HABITATS WHILE PROVIDING EXPERIENCES THAT INSPIRE PEOPLE AND MOTIVATE THEM TO CARE FOR THE NATURAL WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION (ACNC) ADVANCES THE STEWARDSHIP AND CONSERVATION OF ANIMALS AND THEIR HABITATS WHILE PROVIDING EXPERIENCES THAT INSPIRE PEOPLE AND MOTIVATE THEM TO CARE FOR THE NATURAL WORLD.

  • ACNC OPERATES THE PHOENIX ZOO, A 126-ACRE ZOOLOGICAL PARK, WITHIN PAPAGO PARK, WITH OVER 3,000 ANIMALS IN EXHIBITIONS, AND PARTICIPATES IN WORLDWIDE SPECIES SURVIVAL PLANS. THROUGH ECOSYSTEM EXHIBITION, EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION, THE ZOO SERVES VISITORS WITH A MISSION TO PROVIDE EXPERIENCES THAT INSPIRE PEOPLE AND MOTIVATE THEM TO CARE FOR THE NATURAL WORLD. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)WITH A FOCUS ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, THE ZOO ALSO CONDUCTS A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH CHILDREN AS THEIR PRIMARY AUDIENCE TO EMPHASIZE CARING RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND ACTION TO CONSERVE ANIMALS AND NATURE IN GENERAL.

    Expenses $34,618,522 · Grants $426,743 · Revenue $36,733,998

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MAJA WESSELS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LARRY FINK

    BOARD CHAIR-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • YVONNE A BETTS

    CHAIR GOVERNANCE AND NOMINATING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JULIE GABLE

    CHAIR OUTCOMES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINDA HAYES

    CHAIR DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GABRIELLE VITALE

    CHAIR FINANCE AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRIS YAMANO

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CYNTHIA AGUILAR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN BAEHR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTY BARRETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEAN C BINGHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL BLAIRE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD B BURNHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AVERY CROSSMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOELLEN DOORNBOS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN FISHER

    TRUSTEE EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTIN HARTMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE HIGGINS

    TRUSTEE EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CRAIG KRUMWIEDE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB MAWK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAWN MEIDINGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN C NORLING

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN M OCHOA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HARRY PAPP

    TRUSTEE EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHIL PETERSEN

    TRUSTEE EMERITUS

    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, 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $49,345,230
    Expenses
    $42,576,318
    Contributions
    $9,459,421
    Grants paid
    $426,743
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $46,724,587
    Expenses
    $37,873,723
    Contributions
    $9,222,806
    Grants paid
    $290,691

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

  • 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
    $47,073,859
    Expenses
    $30,538,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,986,342

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,209,199
    Expenses
    $24,162,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,224,501

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,672,738
    Expenses
    $28,122,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,406,679

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,751,066
    Expenses
    $30,089,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,925,748

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,090,136
    Expenses
    $28,469,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,065,800

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,868,830
    Expenses
    $27,229,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,874,098

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

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.

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 2023 return

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

  • PHOENIX ZOO HOLDINGS LLC

    TO FACILITATE THE ACCEPTANCE AND EVENTUAL SALE OF DONATED REAL ESTATE. · AZ · income $0 · assets $0

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.