Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation

Analysis

Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Cutten, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2004, 22 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, Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation reported income of $838k and spending of $476k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $732k to $838k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 478%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue Inc ($836k), Blood Origins Inc ($838k) and Appalachian Black Bear Rehabilitation and Release Center ($835k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $47k (9.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $190k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $470k, net assets of $626k. It reported 12 employees.