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Filing year 2023

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Dallas, Texas·EIN 75-0964982·NTEE D115 · Animal-Related·3
Total revenue
$24.3M
Total assets
$43.6M
Total expenses
$11.3M
Reported officers
64
Mission

SUPPORT OF THE DALLAS ZOO AS AN OUTSTANDING CENTER OF EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION THROUGH FUNDRAISING, VOLUNTEERISM, PROMOTING PUBLIC AWARENESS AND PARTICIPATION, AND ENHANCING THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

$20k
$22k
VP of Advancement
vice president
$18k
$20k
Vp, Mktg & Communications
vice president
$16k
$18k
Assoc.vp, Leadership & Giving
vice president
$16k
$17k
Sr.director, Giving & Membership
highest compensated employee
$11k
$12k
Controller
highest compensated employee
$10k
$11k
Former President & CEO
former officer/director/trustee
$9k
$10k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 57 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Animal-Related

Down 45%
from 2022

From $36k in 2022 to $20k in 2023.

$36k
2022
$20k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 47% in real terms$41k to $22k

Estimated with Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$10M
$9.5M
2022
$24.3M
$11.3M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Animal-Related executives earn

Comparable animal-related organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $48,500.

25th percentile
$20k
Median
$48,500
75th percentile
$93k
90th percentile
$159k

These are animal-related sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 877 organizations across 877 filings (2021 – 2023).

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