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Dallas Zoo Management Inc

Organization's mission to manage, operate and promote the dallas zoo on behalf of the dallas zoological society pursuant to agreement with the city of dallas, including the care and well-being of the zoo's animals and the promotion of the educational, family entertainment, conservation and civic missions of the dallas zoo.

$421k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$13MEnvironment$210k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $236,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $421,347 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,847 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $232k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$35,000
ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS$31,500
VETPAW$25,000
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE$20,000
PEREGRINE FUND$15,000
SEA TURTLE INC$15,000
GRACE CENTER$15,000
DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL$15,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$15,000
GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$15,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC$10,000
CHEETAH CONSERVATION$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
GLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK$5,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAHARA CONSERVATION FUND - EUROPE: $15k → 15%EARTH WATCH INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%PEREGRINE FUND: $15k → 8%VETPAW: $25k → 17%TARANGUIRE ELEPHANT CONSERVATION: $20k → 28%DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $12.4M → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%SEA TURTLE INC: $15k → 23%TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%AWARE INSTITUTE LLC: $16k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTL INC: $76k → 13%GRACE CENTER: $10k → 12%LINCOLN PARK ZOO: $12k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS: $32k → 8%GRACE CENTER INC: $15k → 7%EARTH WATCH INSTITUTE: $14k → 16%PEREGRINE FUND: $15k → 8%VETPAW: $25k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $15k → 28%TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE (FT WORTH ZOO): $20k → 11%TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE: $20k → 14%SEA TURTLE INC: $15k → 23%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $15k → 14%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTL INC: $31k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS: $26k → 8%GRACE CENTER: $15k → 7%PEREGRINE FUND: $15k → 8%OKAPI CONSERVATION PROJECT: $15k → 14%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 13%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $30k → 14%GRACE CENTER: $15k → 7%ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GLOBAL INC: $15k → 14%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTL INC: $20k → 13%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $15k → 14%GRACE CENTER: $15k → 7%ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 13%ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 13%EARTHX: $15k → 14%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTL INC: $13k → 13%THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 13%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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ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $125k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$75k · 60% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$25k · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$15k · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION SUPPORT

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalScience & TechArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $206k · revenue +98%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Global Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • DZ
    DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $12M · revenue -2% · 50% of their budget
  • AI
    AWARE INSTITUTE LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • SC
    SAHARA CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -43%

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
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
4
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
5
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
6
Global Conservation Force Inc

Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.

Animals
7
Global Wildlife Foundation

Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.

Animals
8
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment
9
Panthera Corporation

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.

Animals
10
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
Zambia Carnivore Programme

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

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%35%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr10%4%35–55yr13%93%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/33
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,771

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 34 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)
28/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $12,400,000 · AnimalsDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY+15 more — $634,095 · AnimalsDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $206,032 · OtherELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · OtherVETPAW INC — $60,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $50,000 · OtherAWARE INSTITUTE LLC — $16,000 · Other+5 more — $40,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $30,000 · EnvironmentSAHARA CONSERVATION FUND — $15,000 · EnvironmentSEA TURTLE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC — $34,000 · Science & TechEARTH DAY TEXAS INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTexas A&M Foundation — $15,000 · EducationGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 · International
Animals$13,034,095Other$437,032Environment$105,000Arts & Culture$50,000Science & Tech$34,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Education$15,000International$5,000

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 budgetDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $12,400,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $206,032 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Global Inc — $140,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC — $132,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC — $70,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $52,845 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION — $47,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC — $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAHARA CONSERVATION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEARTH DAY TEXAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEE TURTLES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Houston Zoo IncColumbus Zoological P…Zoological Society of…Detroit Zoological So…Dallas Zoological Soc…Utah Zoological Socie…Living Desert TheJacksonville Zoologic…East Coast Zoological…Nashville Zoo IncOmaha Zoological Soci…Riverbanks Society
Houston Zoo IncTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Zoo Inc · Columbus Zoological Park Association · Zoological Society of San Diego · Detroit Zoological Society · Dallas Zoological Society · Utah Zoological Society · Living Desert The · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc · Nashville Zoo Inc · Omaha Zoological Society · Riverbanks Society

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 Dallas Zoo Management 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • See Turtles — 11% of income from government
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dallas Zoo Management Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dallas Zoo Management Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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