Michigan City Zoological Society Inc

Analysis

Michigan City Zoological Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Michigan City, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Michigan City Zoological Society Inc reported income of $104k and spending of $145k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $147k to $104k (-29%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Michigan City Zoological Society Inc sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wee Rescue Inc ($104k), Kittykind Inc ($104k) and Pets Are Worth Saving Paws of Rutherford County NC ($104k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $139k against liabilities of $70k, net assets of $69k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.