· Public charity
Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Inc
Zoo atlanta's mission is to save wildlife and their habitats through research, conservation, education and engaging experiences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $128,427 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $239,013 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,586 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATIONS - FRIENDS OF TUSK | $51,182 |
| RED PANDA NETWORK | $12,285 |
| PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ORANGUTAN OUTREACH | $7,500 |
| ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC AKA THE WILDS | $6,000 |
| CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO | $5,460 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $98k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR GOLDEN LION TAMARINS · SLOTH CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: RESEARCH DEFICIENT TREE ROOSTING VULTURE SPECIES
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 53% of Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
- WAWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +12%
- TTTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -67%
- RTRAINFOREST TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +78%
- MZMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +263%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Mozparks initiativ, inc has been established to address and defeat the onslaught on elephant, rhino, and other species of wildlife and the habitat of wildlife in mozambique. mozparks partners with non-governmental organizations, local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Panda Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED PANDA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN OUTREACH INC ATTN RICHARD ZIMMERMAN ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PANDRILLUS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · Detroit Zoological Society · Zoological Society of San Diego · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Atlanta Fulton County Zoo Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.