How much did DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY grant in FY2024?

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY reported 3 grants totaling $2,123,438 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY based?

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY is based in TX.

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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· Public charity

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

$2.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$2.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Animals$11MEnvironment$25kOther$86k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

wwfworld'sdiversityreduceearthmillionsclimate

2021

educationengagefuture elephantsinternationalelephantdedicatedzoo

2022

zoo

2023

gorillasworkingzoocare

2024

zooanimals

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$250k+1 grant · $2.0M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$44M

Total assets

Largest grants

DALLAS ZOO MANAGEMENT INC$2,005,938
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION$75,000
TEXAS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$20,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 4 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+50%

Still filing today

75%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

DZ
DALLAS ZOO MANAGEMENT INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +26%
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +55%
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND
2× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +147%

Funded once

GR
GORILLA REHABILITATION & CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +378%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +46%
PF
PEREGRINE FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +52%

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.

International Wildlife

The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…

Environment

Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's wildlife from habitat loss and human exploitation.

Animals

City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Virunga Fund Inc

Gorilla welfare and natural resource conservation in virunga national park in the drc.

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Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

Space for Giants Usa Inc

To help protect Africas remaining natural ecosystems and the large wild animals they contain, while bringing major social and economic value to local communities and national governments.

Animals

The Wild Bird Foundation of America

Support conservation of wild bird species and ecosystems in africa and other geographic locations.

Animals

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

To protect endangered species & preserve their natural habitats.

Animals

Institute for Conservation Leadership

Community Improvement

NatureServe

NatureServe is the global leader in data, science and technology to conserve biodiversity.

Environment

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gorilla Rehabilitation Conservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

13/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$10,908,651Other$85,569Environment$25,000

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.

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 IncTX18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Zoo Inc · Dallas Zoo Management Inc · Columbus Zoological Park Association · Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · Detroit Zoological Society · Zoological Society of San Diego · Network for Good · 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 organisation DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DALLAS ZOO MANAGEMENT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270777846 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DALLAS ZOO MANAGEMENT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dallas Zoological Society?

Find your warmest path to Dallas Zoological Society through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dallas Zoological Society?

More from the funding graph

DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dallas Zoological Society?

More from the funding graph