Nashville Zoo Inc

Analysis

Nashville Zoo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1990, 36 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, Nashville Zoo Inc reported income of $47.4m and spending of $29.5m, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $28.8m to $47.4m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 154%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Nashville Zoo Inc sits at the 100th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arizona Center for Nature Conservation ($46.7m), Toledo Zoological Society ($47.5m) and Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo Inc ($46.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 57% and program service revenue 24% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.7m (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $11.0m. At year end it held assets of $178.2m against liabilities of $10.0m, net assets of $168.2m. It reported 474 employees.