Sunset Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Trust Foundation

Analysis

Sunset Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Trust Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Manhattan, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1992, 34 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, Sunset Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Trust Foundation reported income of $271k and spending of $158k, leaving 42% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $353k to $271k (-23%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Sunset Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Trust Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Helping Every Animal Receive Treatment ($270k), Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter Inc ($271k) and Elk County Humane Society ($270k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $700k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $700k.