Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc

Analysis

Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Topeka, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1964, 62 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, Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc reported income of $12.8m and spending of $7.7m, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.7m to $12.8m (+373%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Connecticut Humane Society ($12.8m), Douglas Island Pink and Chum Incorporated ($12.8m) and The North Carolina Aquarium Society ($12.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $113k (1.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.8m. It paid $107k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $21.7m against liabilities of $4.4m, net assets of $17.3m. It reported 176 employees.