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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. Stone memorial zoo, to any other agency or entity referenced therein, and act independently in connection with zoological matters. Furthermore, zoo new england's…

$125k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$80k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$64M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$80k0%
FY20244$100k0%
FY20233$60k0%
FY20224$106k0%
FY20217$77k29%
FY20205$55k0%
FY20196$82k67%
FY20186$53k83%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$294kAnimals$243kArts & Culture$160k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England

How much does Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England give?
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England reported 3 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $125,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Animals (35%), Arts & Culture (23%).
Who are Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Smithsonian Institution ($160k), US for Belize Foundation for Research & Environmental Education Inc ($151k), Health in Harmony ($135k).
Does Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Detroit Zoological Society, Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc, Reid Park Zoological Society.
Where is Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England based?
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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