· Public charity
Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk
The kansas city zoo & aquarium connects all people to each other and the natural world to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $112,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $506,223 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $394,023 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 · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $22,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MARINE MEGFAUNA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL | $13,100 |
| REWILD | $10,000 |
| SAVE GIRAFFES NOW | $7,100 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 — $143k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +138%
- IEINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $81k · revenue +70%
- PBPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +76% · 35% of their budget
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +83%
- GCGLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +31%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
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.
To protect endangered species.
Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…
Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…
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.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.
Wildlife conservation, research and education.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds ZOO CONSERVATION OUTREACH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Rare Species Conservatory Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRAFFES NOW ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK PRIMATE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc · Dallas Zoo Management Inc · Houston Zoo Inc · Detroit Zoological Society · Columbus Zoological Park Association · Zoological Society of San Diego · 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 Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk 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.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% 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.