Friends of the Palo Alto Jr Museum and Zoo

Analysis

Friends of the Palo Alto Jr Museum and Zoo is a registered charity in United States, based in Palo Alto, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Friends of the Palo Alto Jr Museum and Zoo reported income of $338k and spending of $444k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $2.2m to $338k (-85%), an average of -38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 479% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends of the Palo Alto Jr Museum and Zoo sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include JRS Pups-N-Stuff Incorporated ($337k), Humane Society Serving Crawford County and Its Municipalities Inco ($338k) and One Dane at a Time Inc ($337k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 125% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $123k. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $3.6m.