Tulsa Zoo Management Inc

Analysis

Tulsa Zoo Management Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Tulsa, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1975, 51 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, Tulsa Zoo Management Inc reported income of $24.5m and spending of $21.7m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $15.7m to $24.5m (+56%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Tulsa Zoo Management Inc sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Animal Humane Society ($24.5m), Utah Zoological Society ($24.6m) and Helen Woodward Animal Center ($24.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 51% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $751k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $6.1m. At year end it held assets of $37.4m against liabilities of $5.2m, net assets of $32.2m. It reported 250 employees.