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Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England

To provide all administrative and other services and support required or contemplated by chapter 92b of the massachusetts general laws to the franklin park zoo and the walter d.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

International$190kArts & Culture$160kAnimals$148kHealth$135kEnvironment$40kOther$24k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 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.

$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTH IN HARMONY$40,000
US FOR BFREE$30,000
BAIRD'S TAPIR SURVIVAL ALLIANCE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COUGAR NETWORK: $9k → 8%THE PEREGRINE FUND: $8k → 8%POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 10%PANTHERA: $9k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $13k → 28%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%US FOR BFREE: $10k → 19%CHELONIAN CONSERVATION FUND: $7k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL: $12k → 17%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - USA: $10k → 17%SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $10k → 9%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $6k → 6%CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND: $13k → 9%ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH CO AUDUBON ZOO GARDEN: $7k → 23%ASSOCIATION OF ZOO & AQUARIUMS: $8k → 8%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION ED CENTER: $5k → 7%RED PANDA NETWORK: $9k → 10%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%US FOR BFREE: $10k → 19%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL: $10k → 17%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - USA: $10k → 17%INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $9k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF ZOO AND AQUARIUMS: $5k → 8%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $15k → 14%US FOR BFREE: $9k → 19%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL: $10k → 17%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - USA: $10k → 17%WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF ZOO AND AQUARIUMS: $5k → 8%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $15k → 14%US FOR BFREE: $32k → 19%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - USA: $9k → 17%US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%US FOR BFREE: $30k → 19%US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $20k on the FY2025 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.

Middle East and North Africa$10k · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$10k · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$594k · 8 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$594k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +34%
  • UF
    US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +181%
  • HI
    Health in Harmony
    4× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • Cheetah Conservation Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +147%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +52%
  • CN
    COUGAR NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
International Primate Protection League

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.

Animals
3
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
6
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
7
Zoo Outreach Organisation

Wildlife conservation, research and education.

Environment
8
American Humane Association

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…

Animals
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
11
Zambia Carnivore Programme

To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.

Animals
12
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC — $150,846 · InternationalUS FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR R…GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA — $39,370 · InternationalGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $160,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONREWILD — $40,000 · AnimalsREWILDINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $19,025 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPA…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC — $18,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF …Cheetah Conservation Fund — $13,488 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fun…Wildlife Conservation Society — $12,908 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation So…PANTHERA CORPORATION — $8,996 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL — $8,910 · AnimalsWILD ENTRUST INTERNATION…RED PANDA NETWORK — $8,550 · AnimalsRED PANDA NETWORKTennessee Aquarium — $6,855 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $5,593 · AnimalsGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC — $5,404 · AnimalsHealth in Harmony — $135,000 · HealthHealth in HarmonyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $32,000 · EnvironmentPollinator Partnership — $7,755 · EnvironmentCOUGAR NETWORK INC — $9,212 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $8,401 · OtherZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC — $6,785 · Other
International$190,216Arts & Culture$160,000Animals$147,729Health$135,000Environment$39,755Other$24,398

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUS FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC — $150,846 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetHealth in Harmony — $135,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREWILD — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA — $39,370 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $32,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $19,025 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $13,488 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $12,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL — $8,910 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRED PANDA NETWORK — $8,550 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $8,401 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPollinator Partnership — $7,755 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC — $6,785 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $5,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC — $5,404 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Detroit Zoological SocietyMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Detroit Zoological Society · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · Reid Park Zoological Society · Utah Zoological Society · East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc · Arizona Center for Nature Conservation · Columbus Zoological Park Association · Zoological Society of San Diego · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 62%
  • Us for Belize Foundation for Research & Environmental Education Inc62% of income from government
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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