Valley Zoological Endowment

Analysis

Valley Zoological Endowment is a registered charity in United States, based in Brownsville, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Valley Zoological Endowment reported income of $522k and spending of $751k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.5m to $522k (-65%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Valley Zoological Endowment sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 75th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foundation for the Advancement & Support of the Tennessee Walking ($522k), Animal Mission ($522k) and Animal Protective Assn ($521k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% of the total. At year end it held assets of $16.2m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $15.1m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.