Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc

Analysis

Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in New Bedford, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.6m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.7m (+19%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 303%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tanka Fund ($1.7m), Fox Valley Humane Association ($1.7m) and Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 27% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $834k. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 51 employees.